Accra, Nov 19 (Representative) The Ghana government targets to build at least 30,000 toilets for poor urban households in the country’s second city Kumasi as part of its efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6, an official told Xinhua. George Asiedu, the Coordinator for the Ghana Sanitation and Water Project (SWP), said the four-year project, which commenced in August, is part of the measures by the government to end open defecation in the country.
“The SWP has received a new funding of 125 million US dollars from the World Bank, and the first component of the funding will support 30,000 households in the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) to construct portable improved toilets,” he disclosed. The coordinator said the GKMA project would bear 70 percent of the cost of toilets for the low-income households to improve the sanitation situation in the beneficiary communities. “The project will also provide 150 institutional toilets in schools and healthcare facilities in the targeted communities. The school toilet facilities will help girls remain in school during their menstrual cycles and improve the general sanitation conditions in the schools,” Asiedu stated.