Success stories
Transforming Lives in Mandari: Barikisu’s Water Story with USAID’s Enhancing WASH Activity
In the heart of the Bole District in Northern Ghana, lies the serene and welcoming Mandari Community, a place that has seen significant transformation thanks to the visionary efforts of USAID. This change has touched the life of Barikisu, a proud native of Mandari, in ways she never imagined. With the implementation of a mechanized…
Read MoreA functional latrine in one week
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has drastically improved sanitation and hygiene in Ghana’s Zangu-Vuga community. Prior to the USAID-supported WASH for Health Project, basic sanitation was a formidable challenge, as there were no household or communal latrines in the area. Community members typically practiced open defecation and disposed of refuse indiscriminately. Stagnant waste water created ‘mini…
Read MoreImproving Health Service Delivery Through Provision Of WASH Facilities
At about 12 midnight in June 2019, a baby boy was born to a young couple at the Tutukpene Health Center in the Oti Region. Unfortunately, there was no water to wash the mixture of blood and amniotic fluid off the baby and the equipment used for the delivery. Relatives of the newborn’s mother had…
Read MoreSaving Lives with a Little Soap and Water: New Behavior Change Communication Package promotes healthy hygiene practices
Imagine saving 5,000 lives. This is one of many things that the Government of Ghana and its non-profit and private-sector partners hope to accomplish by promoting improved water, sanitation and hygiene behaviors, like handwashing. According to UNICEF, more than 10,000 children in Ghana die each year from preventable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia. To address…
Read MoreHolistic Menstrual Hygiene Management in Ghana
For a visually or hearing impaired girl in a deprived community, menstruation is not just the monthly flow of blood. It is a burden of understanding why she has to bleed, communicating her discomfort associated with the bleeding, accessing user-friendly and hygienic sanitary materials, and determining when next ‘Miss Red’ will rear her head. Girls…
Read MoreUSAID WASH for Health Commissions Two Small Town Water Systems at Kalba and Tinjaase in Commemoration of World Water Day
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through their implementing partner Global Communities, under the WASH for Health project has commissioned two small town water systems in Kalba (Savannah Region) and Tinjase (Oti Region) earlier this March to commemorate World Water Day. The construction of the small town water systems is part of a…
Read MoreDigni-Loo catches Sanitation Ministry’s Attention/Sanitaion Ministry to provide some 20,000 households with Digni-Loos
The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Madam Cecelia Abena Dapaah, on Tuesday, 9th October 2018 paid a visit to the Duraplast Ghana Limited plant at Kaneshi Industrial Area to have a look at the Digni-Loo, an innovative plastic latrine by Global Communities as part of their USAID-funded WASH For Health project. At a press…
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