Life is not complete for any human being till that being is able to have a feeling of living a dignified life. A healthy human being would eat and would need to expel out the waste in the system. In modern day life, human beings have devised very neat and clean ways of easing themselves and it is very nice and dignified that sometimes, one would even forget that human beings just life animals do expel excreta.
However, it is not every part of this world that every body enjoys use of the basic facilities that make life really dignified as modern human beings should. In other parts of the world and in Northern Ghana, people living in rural communities hardly enjoy the use of these basic facilities. People in rural northern Ghana still practice the very old, outmoded, unacceptable, pure and raw of easing themselves, because they cannot afford the basic necessities of life and they have not been provided for them to even refuse to use.
All over, rural northern Ghanaian, one can easily see people, mature and young, men and women, boys and girls easing themselves in the opening, all because they have no better choice. They have been subjecting themselves to crude and unacceptable ways of expelling the waste in exposed ways that something needs to be done to help solve these undignified practices.
As people do “own things” any where, the consequences are evident for all to see, feel and smell.
It is so disturbing during the dry season, when there are no shrubs, weeds and other plants to serve as covers or shield and it is so plain to see people even from faraway away distance easing themselves in the openings.
The indiscriminate ways of expelling human excreta among northern Ghanaian rural dwellers bring diseases that make people sick and some even die prematurely, yet solutions have been provided.
It is high time philanthropist, non-governmental organizations, (NGOs), the government came to the aid of these communities and the private companies should take up these as part of their corporate social responsibilities. It is greatly worth, more than could be imagined.
WHY ARE THE LAVATORIES NEEDED
· Help make people lives dignified.
· Help prevent and eradicate and reduce certain diseases and illnesses
· People get a place to ease themselves
· Men and women would have separate places for privacy
· Constructing basic toilet facilities in rural northern Ghana is very cheap.
· Cheap labour is available because of communal labour, once the natives know it is for them, they would volunteer.
· Free land, the chiefs and elders of the communities would always donate land for good use.
· It would be a great and a memorable contribution to that community’s development and improvement in the lives of the dwellers.
· Society at large benefits and the impact is immeasurable
There are some particular villages in the Upper Eastern Region, near Bawku that really lack these facilities and need the support of individuals and organizations to help provide them with basic toilet facilities. These are Zaago Number 1 and Number 2, Gumyoko and Aporizua. These villages are about 15 minutes drive from Bawku, but the people go through hell and unacceptable ways of easing themselves, which needs to be stopped.
I entreat individuals, organizations to go to their aid. Directions could be given to whoever wants to help. I can direct them to see some chiefs and elders of these villages for further discussions.
© 2011, Godwin-Xavier Ayeebo
Email: gayeebo@gmail.com
Blog: www.g-xavierayeebo.blogspot.com
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