Open Defecation: CHIEF Foundation Builds Toilets for Ogun Public School

By Our Correspondent 



The CHIEF Foundation, an NGO, has built a modern toilets to help end open defecation for Pupils and Staff of Baptist Community Primary School, Kemta Housing Estate, Idi-aba, Abeokuta.

Mrs Kelani Berna London, the Chairman, CHIEF Foundation made this known while commissioning the modern public toilet for the school, saying that the Foundation is established to assist with the care of Children, Health, Innovations, Education and Family organization that is established under the corporate affairs commission by Mr. Kelani .
 
“We at CHIEF Foundation believes that open defecation is a great menace in our society with lots of adverse effect on the populace.


The Foundation said it “believes that helping humanity to avoid and eradicate this menace is not to be saddled with the government only or bundled on certain class of people, but it is a responsibility that we all have to emulate and do in one little way or the other, because “WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS”.

“This was as she added that the foundation was working to bridge the gap of health-related challenges, through the provision of access to clean, drinking water, hygiene promotion in the society, as well as providing WASH facilities.

She, therefore, tasked the pupils of the school on maintenance culture, to protect the constructed toilets.


“As a result of our understanding of the effects of Open Defecation practices on the health of a population and the economy of the country, we decided to play an impactful role in moving the nation closer to her goal of ending Open Defecation by 2025.

“The Foundation come into the School, and after a pre-intervention survey, realised the need to provide an improved form of sanitation facilities in the school.

“In curbing the sanitation problems faced by the school, CHIEF Foundation, constructed four new sanitation facilities to increase the number of sanitation facilities in the school.

Applauding the Foundation for the initiative, which he said was laudable, the Chairman Obafemi Owode local government, Ambassador Ogunsola Adesina however, regretted that since the establishment of the School years ago, the school had no toilet facility.

He thanked the Foundation, adding that local government has developed a Sanitation Safety Plan, to address the menace.

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