Kokomlemle teachers form sanitation club
The Kokomlemle Local Assembly of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) in the Ayawaso sub-metro of Accra has launched a health and sanitation club with the aim of addressing poor sanitation conditions in the community.
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Among its other objectives, the club plans to contribute to efforts to get the environment clean and to inculcate in the youth a sense of cleanliness.
According to the group, sanitation clubs would be established in a number of schools in the area, including the Kotobabi cluster of schools, New Town Junior High School (JHS), Kwame Nkrumah cluster of schools and St. John’s Primary and Junior High schools.
The club has plans of having a mass clean up of the environment in the Kokomlemle community on the first Friday of every month, a day before the national clean-up exercise that is held every first Saturday of the month.
Commendation
The ceremony to launch the club was held on the theme; “Promoting good health and sanitation for a better society”.
The Estate Manager of GNAT, Mr Chris Gordon Darkwa, commended the teachers for forming the club.
He said the decision to inculcate the habit of cleanliness in the youth, particularly schoolchildren was brilliant.
He said the government placed high premium on having a clean environment, and that the effort on the part of teachers to complement the National Sanitation Day was very laudable.
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Mr Darkwa used the occasion to introduce the members of the club to the GNAT Home Ownership Scheme which was set up to assist teachers to either put up their own houses.
He said for a teacher to become involved with the scheme, the one had to be a member of GNAT and a contributor to the Teachers Fund.
Complaints
The members of the Kokomlemle GNAT Sanitation Club hoped that the local government authorities would support them with tools that would enable them to cart refuse. They said the tools were needed to avoid the situation where refuse collected were left on the shoulders of the road and were washed back into the drains whenever it rained.
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) District Environmental Health Officer for Ayawaso Sub-metro, Mr Lawrence Sampson, said his outfit would consider the request from the club.