The Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) Water and Sanitation Project (WSP) has commissioned and handed over a 15-seater Institutional Sanitation Facility to St. Louis Senior High School in Kumasi.
The facility comprises a 12-unit for the students, one-unit for the physically challenged and two-units for the teachers.
Engineer George Asiedu, the Project Coordinator, explained that water is life and sanitation is dignity and that, without good sanitation, the school environment would not be a conducive place for teaching and learning.
He indicated that poor sanitation always results in the outbreak of diseases like cholera and other communicable diseases, when most schools are without toilet facilities.
According to him, the objective of the initiative was to support water and sanitation Hygiene (WASH) as a basic necessity to our homes, schools and children.
He noted that a girl child has to experience menstruation monthly, which he said was natural phenomenon and that the need to discourage discrimination and stigma against them.
Mad. Felicia Dapaah, Chief Director-Head of Local Government Service and old student of the school commended Ing George Asiedu, the Coordinator for Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Water and Sanitation Project (WSP), for the commitment in partnering the ministry to help in the dignity and empowerment of the ladies in the school.
According to her, the initiative would ensure that the girls focus on their studies without struggling for space to ease themselves and entreated school management and the students to prioritise the maintenance culture to ensure that it benefits future students of the school.
Mrs. Ama KyerewaaBenefo, Headmistress of St. Louis SHS, expressed gratitude to GKMA and GAMA for considering the school to be part of the project.
She promised management’s commitment to ensure that the facility serves the intended purpose to improve Sanitation Hygiene on the campus.
She also pleaded with Old Students, other stakeholders and corporate organisations to come to their aid for the provision of other infrastructural facilities to absorb the over growing population of the students and teachers.
