3 Communities in Accra receive items to address sanitation problems
The Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, has undertaken a number of measures to augment efforts at addressing, sanitation problems in three particular communities in Ga Mashie.
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The initiatives will benefit the James Town, Ussher Town and Old Fadama communities in Accra. The measures include the provision of waste collection trucks, tricycles and about 800 waste bins to facilitate waste segregation at source.
There is also the formation of Ngleshie community fun club to serve as a means by which youth in the communities could generate income.
The fun club is anticipated to increase awareness in the communities of the need to maintain clean surroundings in order to bring about improvement in the health of the people.
Among the interventions will also be the construction of a 144-metre drain through the Agbogbloshie community and the renovation and improvement of the Sempe fish preservation facility.
Income generation, other benefits
In presenting items to representatives of the three communities in Accra last Friday, the Director of the Institute for Population Studies, Professor Samuel Nii Ardey-Codjoe, said the initiatives were designed to improve the living conditions of residents, particularly the youth, in the three communities.
“The initiative is a source of income generation for the youth, who would be recruited to carry out door-to-door collection of waste,” he said.
He said the interventions would help ease perennial flooding and the attendant risks to the communities.
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According to him, the gesture formed part of the institute’s corporate social responsibility, and was also a show of appreciation to the communities for allowing their areas to be used for research on climate change.
The research was to establish the people’s resilience to climate change through adaptation: the role of indigenous knowledge.
The general objective of the project was to make clear changes brought about through knowledge, attitudes and behaviour that encouraged resilience and adaptation to climate change. The findings are expected to eventually lead to combating malaria and other diseases.
Professor Ardey-Codjoe urged the three communities to maintain the equipment in order that they may have a long life span. He said the institute was grateful to all stakeholders, including chiefs and queenmothers, assembly members and residents for their continuous support.