As part of efforts to help solve sanitation issues at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School, the old students of the school, Akunini have commissioned a 12-seater toilet facility for the school.
The school’s communications officer, Kwame Boafo, said the $20,000 ultramodern facility, built by the US branch of Akunini under the KUMACA USA Sanitation Project, will help prevent any outbreak of disease relating to sanitation.
Kumasi Academy was in the news in 2017 following the death of four students. On investigation, the deaths were traced to poor sanitation at the school.
Boafo said it was necessary to have the sanitation challenges resolved to avert unforeseen developments.
Old boys to the rescue
“We all know what happened a couple of years ago and there was an outbreak here in the school that put us on the wrong side of the map,” Boafo said.
“That made us feel that there was a need for us to do something about sanitation on our campus because those kind of diseases are communicable and they come up as a result of poor sanitation.
“It is the collaboration of the Old Students USA and the strength of Dr Kwame Bawuah-Adusei, who was the ambassador to the USA.”
The headmaster of the school, Kwame Samuel Gattor, said the project was “very crucial and essential”.
He was thankful the new toilet facility will help solve the sanitation challenge of the school and as well as ease the pressure on already existing toilet facilities in the school.
“It is going to solve one of our major challenges of inaccessibility of washrooms at the central area of the school compound, by students and school community members. Again, it is going to reduce drastically the excuse given by students to use the washrooms at the dormitories as lessons are going on.”
Hygiene sorted
Students, who could not hide their joy at the commissioning of the facility, said it had come in a time of need.
Having to battle congestion in the era of COVID-19, the students believe the new facility will be of great help.
“Gone were the days where the school population was less but now because of the free education, periodically the number keeps increasing,” the headmaster said.
“The president has introduced the track system, but the number keeps going up, so there is congestion and increasing pressure on our amenities, like our urinal and many more.
“We are in corona times and we need to keep hygiene in place, we needed a washroom and they have done it, we are very grateful, with this, it will help in the sanitation in the school in terms of defecation and urinating,” Gattor said.
The Akunini will soon commission a state of the art science laboratory for the school.
Loretta Timah
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