WaterAid Ghana calls the media to support the advocacy for WASH in National Development

WaterAid Ghana has call the media to support the advocacy for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in National development. WaterAid is a non governmental organisation that enables the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. It vision is of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation, with a mission to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.

During a workshop held in the Upper West region on the 19^th June, 2017 on Media for WASH in National development appealed to the media to partner with WaterAid Ghana to promote universal access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in the region and the country as a whole.

According to WaterAid Ghana, globally, 2.4 billion people live without access to improved sanitation and 2 million people in the rural Ghana are force to use unsafe water and their and their main objective is to enable everyone to have access to portable clean and safe water by 2030. Currently WAG is working in the three Northern regions, Upper East, Northern region and Upper West region to ensure that the people of these regions get access to clean and safe water to use.

According to Mr. Chaka Uzondu, the policy management on WASH and Health focal person for WaterAid Ghana in an interview expressed that, the media is a very important aspect of civil society. Therefore, WatereAid Ghana (WAG) organized this workshop media particularly in the Upper West region to learn how they could work together so that the media will play a stronger role in the implementations of policies by government and also strengthen community’s ability to demand for their right to Water and sanitation.

He also urged communities to desist from their bad sanitation practices such as open defecation and try to provide toilet facilities in their homes. It has been revealed that almost 1 billion people still practice open defecation and 85% of Ghanaians do not have basic toilet and 6o% also use shared toilet, 61% also use unimproved toilet.