The No Business As Usual Project has launched two social enterprises expected to solve the twin sanitation challenges of open defecation and poor management of plastic waste in the Asokore Mampong Municipality.
The project couched by the SOS Villages with support from the European Union and the Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly (AMMA) comes at a time the Municipality has come last on the District League Table compiled by UNICEF.
The first project expected to create hundreds of jobs for youth in the municipality is providing affordable bio-digester waste treatment toilet systems for households.
A company Biogas and Construction Limited spearheading the project is expected to offer these toilet facilities at a subsidized value for houses in the area to pay back over time.
The other project jointly established with Environment 360, is for the collection and recycling of plastic waste.
Already some young persons have been trained to pick quality plastics which will be bought by Environment 360 and compressed for exports to Germany for recycling.
Programs director with the No Business As Usual project, Esther Matey indicated that enough consultation had been conducted to secure the buy-in needed for a successful rollout of the two initiatives.
She disclosed, “We have the buy-in of the traditional leaders, community leaders, assembly members and the local assembly itself and they are willing to help us sensitize and conscientize people to go in for these toilet facilities. They are also willing to enforce the need for community members to keep their pet bottles so that we can buy and recycle.”
The No Business As Usual Project is a collaborative effort between the SOS Villages the European Union and the Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly.
The partnership is to create direct jobs for 500 youth, reach 2000 young persons in the municipality with socio-economic empowerment and engender participatory governance and accountability from the local assembly.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FMIvan Heathcote – Fumador