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Our Aim
The fundamental and very simple aim of Loos4Learners is to build as many toilet blocks in as many schools in Ghana as we possibly can. We believe that all children have a right to be educated and toilets in their places of learning are an essential part of that right. Without toilets, so many children, particularly girls, will miss out on school. The lack of sanitation undermines the dignity, the health and the safety of these children.
We would love you to help us achieve this aim and ensure that this basic provision so often taken for granted by many of our own children is made a reality for children in Ghana.
Our First Project
The Loos 4 Learners team have partnered with Ejisu Presby Primary, a school located outside of Kumasi in the Ashanti district, which is approximately a hundred miles north of Ghana’s capital Accra. Ejisu Presby Primary is a co-educational school for children aged between four and twelve with a school population of 1,600 children and the headteacher is Madam Dorcas. The primary school shares a site with Ejisu Presbyterian Junior High School which has 560 pupils. The junior school will share the proposed toilet building with the primary school.
The school has already started work on plans for their new toilet block and architect drawings have been prepared and costed. Parents have also started to support the project as much as they can by fundraising themselves.
Until recently, the school did not have their own water supply. With joint funding from L4L and the school’s parents a bore hole was dug bringing fresh water to the school. The L4LTeam have to thank the Lions Club of Felixstowe for their financial support during this stage of the project.
The above video shoes the delight the children felt the first time they saw water in the school.
We asked the children for their comments once the water was made accessible to them via a single tap on the school’s playground.
“When I saw the water coming out of the borehole, I was so happy….now we can drink water in our school.”
“The water coming out made us so excited….at last we have water to drink and wash our hands.”
The borehole is just the first step for this school, we want to help them take their second step and provide a safe and clean place for the children and their teachers to go to the toilet.
It can be quite distressing for the children to leave the safety of their classroom and head into the bush to go to the toilet. The impact of this situation is clearly described by these children’s comments.
‘ I will be very happy if we get toilet in my school. There is a snake in the bush where we go to toilet. Once I saw a baby snake there and run away.’ Makoe
‘The day we will get toilet in our school I will dance and dance. One day I have a running stomach. I used all my money to go to So Good (the name of the public toilet nearby). When it came again, before I get to the bush I did it on myself.’ Vida
