The oldest basic school in Ghana has poor sanitary facilities

The Philip Quaque Boy’s School in Cape Coast, Ghana still like many basic school lack the acceptable sanitary facilities conducive for children.

The school has a six seater water closet toilet facility but it is an eyesore. The floor is watery and mixed with sand thus giving it murky.

There was a broom lying down and a small barrel containing water in the toilet which I was later told by the school prefect, George Sagoe-Brown served as the drinking water for the students.


There were faeces on most of the toilet seats.
“Some of the students do not like the water closet and instead of sitting on it, they squat on it”, he said.
He said water supply to the place was another challenge.


Sagoe-Brown said they could do with better sanitary facilities.
The water to the school does not flow and pupils have to run to the sea to fetch water to flush their toilet.

According to the United Nations 4 out of 10 people around the world have no access to improved sanitation. They
are obliged to defecate in the open or use unsanitary facilities, with a serious risk of exposure to
sanitation
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related diseases.

Chief Executive Officer of the IRC a think and do tank involved in Water and Sanitation issues with its headquarters in the Netherlands, Mr Patrick Moriarty stresses that "only collective action that drives systematic change can solve the global water and sanitation challenge faced by milllions."