Beautiful and versatile Ghanaian screen diva Nana Ama McBrown has finally started a charity project which is very dear to her heart. After researching and leaning more about the deadly Cholera...
WaterAid Ghana, has called on the government to keep its promise to deliver universal access to sanitation. This followed new analysis in ‘WaterAid’s Overflowing Cities’, which ranked Ghana...
“It’s in the early hours of the day. A young man squats a few steps away from his house. His neighbour suggests to him: “massa, go into the bush a little”. His response: “come and push me...
The Upper East Region recorded the highest open defecation in Ghana with a percentage of 74.7 according to the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of 2014. This was revealed in Bolgatanga at the...
An estimated 1.1 billion people in developing countries, including Ghana, ease themselves outdoors, though the practice is considered the greatest danger to human health. Ghana as a country was...
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has urged Ghanaians to build, own and use improved toilet facilities at home as a means to ending open defecation. “We want our people and...
Accra, Oct. 24, GNA - The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on March 24, 2011 directed landlords in the Metropolis to construct appropriate toilet facilities in their houses. The Assembly warned that...
Beaches along coastal areas in Accra and other parts of the country have been engulfed in filth due to poor sanitary practices of indigenes. Residents of coastal areas like Chorkor, James Town,...
Public toilets - a chain in the line of good sanitation Public toilets are built in communities to solve issues of open defecation and prevent diseases in various communities across the country. Its...
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the next NDC administration under his watch will work towards ending the age-old menace of open defecation by 2021. The President said this at the Banquet...
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri Fifteen Ghanaian artists, 15 genres of art and 15 different media, with one goal; use artwork to contribute to the fight against open defecation. The artists, selected...
Fifteen Ghanaian artists, 15 genres of art and 15 different media, with one goal; use artwork to contribute to the fight against open defecation. The artists, selected across the country, will be...
According to data provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Health Observatory data repository, Ghana loses Ȼ1.13 billion every year in addressing the issue of open defecation whilst...
President John Mahama has directed operators of public toilets in accra to allow children use their facility free of charge.
He gave the directive on Saturday when he toured parts of the Greater...
Public officials sometimes make utterances they wish they could take back.
There are the select few who put their foot in their mouth and yet remain unapologetic.
The assembly man for Lower New...
