Conditions in Dominase are very poor and quite unhealthy. Very few households have their own toilets, there is no running water and many people just go and squat in the grass near to houses and paths.
It is, therefore, very easy for germs and diseases to be brought back into homes.
People in Dominase, particularly young children, can often die due to diseases caused by poor sanitation.
We are, therefore, raising money in England to improve sanitation conditions in Dominase.
We'd like to say a big ?Thank You? to everybody who has already 'bought a bog' for Dominase or made a contribution towards the fund-raising campaign.
We've made a good start but this will need to be a long-running campaign. Please let us know if you think that you might be able to help in any way.
Contact us via doug.pam@btinternet.com
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Members of our Village-to-Village Group work closely with villagers and the authorities in Ghana to devise practical solutions.
Money raised here has already helped to provide a block of latrine toilets for a village school - with hand-washing facilities from harvested rainwater.
The toilet block has four cubicles (two for boys and two for girls) and means that children have somewhere clean and safe to go to the toilet - for the first time ever.
For teenage girls this is likely to make a big difference as it means that they are more likely to go to school every day and so get a better education.
And we are also helping individual households obtain their own latrine toilets - starting with some 'pilot' / 'demonstration' examples during February and March 2011.
As we have shown with the money raised to supply fresh drinking water, relatively small amounts of money can make a really big difference to families in Dominase.
We estimate that just £30 can help buy basic materials for a family to build their own latrine. Money raised will provide materials such as cement, a vent pipe and roofing sheets that villagers in Ghana would be unable to afford. With assistance from their community where necessary, they will dig the pit for their latrine and use local materials to provide the walls etc.
Everyone in Dominase likes the idea - and they recognise that they will have important roles to play in assembling building materials and the labour force. All the communities have skilled masons, but our project will train them to make new products so that more and more toilets can be provided over the years ahead, subsidised by our funding.
