Rotary RRC puts up biofil toilet facility for Jirapa inhabitants
The Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central, has constructed ten-seater bio and eco-friendly toilet in schools and hospitals in Jirapa, in the Upper East Region.
The biofil toilet project that was designed by members of the club, does not require water for its operation, and by-products could be used for fertilizer.
Addressing journalists during the club’s annual charity walk in Accra on Saturday, Madam Mawuse Nyahe, President, Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central, said the project was carried out in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Windsor, Canada.
She said the toilets although did not require water for its operation, it had been designed in such a way that it would not produce foul smell, and it is, therefore, hygienic.
Madam Nyahe said the club in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Windor and the Rotary Club of Jerusalem would undertake a tele-health video conferencing project for health officials at Jirapa.
She said: “The tele-health project would provide tele-medicine video conferencing training and workshops between health workers in Jirapa and their counterparts in Jerusalem.
“We have also began constructing boreholes in deprived communities in the Upper East Region with the aim of helping them access water”.
Madam Nyahe said the club as part of its annual eye care programme, would collaborate with Sight for Africa, based in Ghana, and ICARE Clinic, India, to provide eye care for the less privileged.
“Our Eye Camp project is aimed at providing extensive eye care including treatment for cataract and glaucoma cases for the deprived in the society. We hope to extend our services to the inhabitant of Koforidua next year”, she explained.
Madam Nyahe said the club had also commenced the refurbishing of washrooms at Maamobi Hospital (Maamobi Polyclinic) at an estimated cost of $10,000.
She said the annual walk of the club dubbed: ‘Walk for a Child,’ which was held together with the Rotaract Club of Accra Ring Road Central, the junior members of the club, was to raise GH¢30,000 for the two clubs’ community projects.
The walk, which started at the Barclays Clubhouse at the Ringway Estates, in Accra, ended at Obra Spot, where members of the club in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited undertook a clean-up exercise at the Spot.
The Rotary club unveiled a giant billboard estimated at GH¢5,000, aimed at educating people on the need to end polio, at Ridge.
Source: GNA