And we want to eradicate malaria!

If,  for any reason at all, you have underestimated the menace that waste poses to this nation, these images should help to change your mind. We cannot claim any dignity as a people as long as we allow ourselves to live with these unacceptable situations! These are maximum health risks!

pic.1:There is no shotage of breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

Pic.2: Drains are health hazards in Ghana

Pic.3: Simply unsightly!

Pic.4: Simply unacceptable

Pic.5: We are way too accommodating when it comes to filth.

Pic.6: This cannot go on!

Communities have Responsibilities

That sanitation has implications for the environment underscores its importance; that importance was acknowledged globally by making it one of the conditions for the attainment of Millennium Development Goal 7. It is appropriate that the world focuses on sanitation, for according to the Report, “[a]lmost a quarter of the developing world’s population live without any form of sanitation”. It continues: “An additional 15 per cent use sanitation facilities that do not ensure hygienic separation of human waste from human contact” (Goal 7).

pic1: Too comfortable with waste

The world community has an objective: “Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation” (Goal 7).

pic 2: Dumping sites are started indiscriminately

                     Pic3: Waste is dumped without regard for implications