The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has commissioned four 10-seater gender sensitive, and disability friendly institutional water closet toilets with mechanised borehole and overhead tanks for four schools in the Kumasi Metropolis.
The beneficiary schools are Amankwatia, Anyaano Primary and Junior High (JHS) at Moshie Zongo, Bantama State Boys, and St. Cyprian Anglican M/A Cluster of Schools in Kumasi.
The Assembly has also inaugurated and supplied 15 motorbikes to environmental health officers in the various sub-metro councils to enhance their operations to improve upon sanitation challenges.
All the projects were funded from the Sanitation Challenge for Ghana (SC4Gh) project.
Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi, Mayor of Kumasi, at the inaugural ceremony, explained that the Sanitation Challenge for Ghana (SC4Gh) was jointly organised by the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, DFID, IRC Ghana, Maple Consult, and Ideas to Impact, and was a prize inducement initiative to stimulate competition among Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), and to encourage inclusive partnership for the design and implementation of sustainable liquid waste management strategies.
According to him, it was geared towards bringing a transformational change to citywide sanitation service delivery.
The Mayor disclosed that KMA emerged ultimate winner, alongside one other District Assembly, of the programme, which was launched in October 2015 and ended in July 2019.
The KMA was consequently awarded a prize of UK£400,000, while UK£285,000 was awarded to the emerging winner among the district assemblies.
The KMA boss said with the financial support from the Sanitation Challenge for Ghana, the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly had implemented a number of projects and programmes to improve liquid waste management in the Metropolis.
The Mayor also donated 65 sets of Veronica buckets, stands and hand washing basins, 10 copies of school toilet operations and maintenance manuals, 32 packs (6 pieces per pack) of tissue towels, 8 sets of mop equipment (mop buckets, mop brushes, plunger), 8 boxes of carbolic soaps, 4 gallons of hand sanitisers, and 4 gallons of detergents to the schools.
The Kumasi Secondary/Technical Secondary School (KSTS) and Asanteman Senior High School also benefited from this intervention.
With these interventions, Mayor Osei Assibey Antwi hoped the 2,534 pupils and teaching staff in the four schools would have access to hygienic and dignified toilet facilities aimed at minimising the spread of communicable diseases like diarrhoea and cholera.
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