OPEN DEFECATION, A MAJOR PROBLEM AT BROFOYEDU COMMUNITY
Old latrine picture shown
The major challenge residents of Brofoyedu, a deprived community with a population less than five thousand in the Afigya Kwabre South District of the Ashanti Region are facing in time memoral is open defecation.
The community for the past twenty five years have been left undeveloped. The community which is not far from the district capital town ( Kodie) is still using the outmoded methods for developmental projects that they do embark on. Through communal labour, they dig boreholes and public latrines etc. for the community use.
Speaking to some of the occupants on the situation, they said they have been exposed to open defecating because the youth are not ready to contribute in communal labour when organised and the aged once are no longer strong enough to support in digging new latrine and this worsen the situation in the area.
Mr. Duncan Nkrumah Opoku, the assembly member of the area told DamakSanitationWatch-News that several efforts have been made to draw government attention on the matter yet it fails. He therefore appealing on government and nongovernmental organizations to help rescue them before things get out of hand.
By: Akgri M Daniel
