Rotary International, USAID provide school with toilet facilities
The Rotary International (RI) and USAID in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Koforidua New Juaben has constructed and handed over two new toilet facilities to the Akyem Asuom Presbytarian Basic School in Kwaebibirem Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The two new five-seater Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit (KVIP) handed over the three-stream school is expected to improve the sanitation challenge of the schools with student population of 780.
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The toilet facility is made up of “eight normal privy rooms, two privy rooms with support rails for persons with disability, changing rooms for girls, and urinal for boys”. It also has rainwater harvesting system with a handwashing trough in order to keep the facility hygienic, as well as three new veronica buckets to promote hand washing.
In an interview with Graphic Online during a short ceremony to inaugurate the facility on Thursday, May 27, 2021, the President of the Rotary Club of Koforidua-New Juaben, Mr Afrigyan Lloyd Yaw Kwabi, said the project which was initiated under the Rotary International-USAID Water and Sanitation Project, cost GH¢ 106,145.00.
Maintenance
He urged the school authorities and the students to keep the facility in good shape so as to serve its intended purpose.
He said RI is very much interested in the maintenance and sustainability of its projects as they influence their decisions in undertaking projects in communities over the years.
The Headmaster of Asuom Presby Basic School, Mr Habib Alhassan expressed his gratitude to RI and USAID for the project and pledged that the facility would be properly maintained and sustained.
The Assembly Member of Asuom Adansi, Mr Manfred Frimpong appealed to RI to help the area with a water facility in order to help address their water challenges.
He said pipes laid in the area for water supply had been damaged during the construction of the Asuom-Abomusu roads about two years ago, pointing out that the area relied on a single borehole which makes life very unbearable for residents of the area.
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The District Supervisor at the Kwaebiberem Education Directorate, Mr Oduro Egyapong urged the school authorities to take drastic security measures to ward off residents around the school from accessing the facility, particularly at odd hours.