Stakeholders have been charged to expand the children sanitation fairly to help create sanitation-consciousness among future generations in the country.
The call was made by a form one Junior High School pupil in Elimina, Maame Akua Ohenewaa Gyimah, who is the reigning Child Sanitation Diplomat.
She made the appeal whiles delivering a solidarity message on behalf of Ghanaian children at the 33rd edition of the Mole Wash Conference.
This Year’s Mole Conference Series which was held at Elmina Beach Resort -Elmina in the Central Region on Monday, October 31, 2022 is under the theme “connecting systems to bridge service delivery gaps.”
It is an initiative organized by Zoomlion Foundation, Worldvision and Kings Hall Media, with the support of the Ministry Of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR).
According to them, it seeks to educate, advocate, and entertain hundreds of children who seek to empower the next generation to co-create sustainable solutions to Ghana’s environmental sanitation challenges.
Speaking at the conference, Maame Akua Ohenewaa Gyimah, noted that her humble appeal was motivated because children have not adequately been involved in finding sustainable solutions to the sanitation challenges in the country.
“We therefore encourage all stakeholders to support and expand the Children’s Sanitation Fair, the School Sanitation Solutions Challenge, and the Child Sanitation Diplomat initiative.”
These, she said, makes it necessary to seek to raise a sanitation-conscious future generation.
“Adapt these concepts at the local level so that more children will be involved and also do not think that it is out of place to create a session for children in all subsequent Mole WASH Conferences, even just a session for the children around the conference venue can make an impact” she expressed .
Maame Akua, further, advocated for a modern toilet facility for her school, a cluster of schools which has over 4,000 pupils, and yet they all share an old and dilapidated toilet facility with less than ten seats.
To worsen their plight, the reigning Child Sanitation Diplomat indicated the facility has however been taken over by the community which compels some of the children to defecate and urinate in unapproved places.
“I therefore plead with participants here, and whoever is hearing me, to come to our aid else it will be difficult for me to talk about others elsewhere” she pleaded.
