Open Defecation: NGO Builds 10-Room Toilet For Female Students

As open defecation continues in many states of the Federation unabated, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Umu-Igbo Unite Care, has built a 10-room toilet facilities and overhead water tanks for over 2,000 girl students of Trans-Ekulu Girls Secondary School, Enugu, to end open defecation in the school.
The Project Coordinator of the NGO in Enugu, Miss Faith-Victor Onyekwere, disclosed this over the weekend during the inauguration of the facilities at the school.
Onyekwere stated that her organisation, based in USA, decided to build the facilities for the students because it would help to end open defecation around the school compound.
Her words: “We provided this project so that the girls could be saved from a lot of illnesses associated with open defecation.
“We did not just build modern toilet facilities, we also provided equipment that could be used to pump the water to the two overhead water tanks”, she said
She explained that the organisation’s core areas in contributing to the society included education, wealth creation, healthcare accessibility and provision of relief materials to indigent persons in the society.
Speaking, the Enugu State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Emmanuel Obi, represented by Mr Joachim Ofodile, Director, Administration and Supply, Enugu State Ministry of Health, commended Umu-Igbo Unite Care for building the modern toilet facilities for the students.
Noting that it would go a long way in preventing the students of the school from contacting diseases, Obi called on other well-meaning persons to also help in other areas of needs in the school.
Earlier, the Principal of the School, Mrs Ijeoma Okpe, who attracted the project, lauded the organisation for building the modern toilet facilities in the school.
According to her, “I want to specially thank Umu-Igbo Unite Organisation wherever they are. I appreciate them for making this project a physical reality and helping to write my name in the sand of time and history book of this school.
“I specially and wholeheartedly thank Ikenna and Faith, the foot soldiers and the project supervisor, Donnie Onyeanu, as well as the Civil Engineer of the project, Mr Okey, for his selfless service and a work exquisitely done”, she added.
She expressed gratitude to some old students of the school, who have partnered with her in many ways in rebranding the school, enumerating them to include, Mrs Edith Okoh, who contributed towards making the school library conducive for reading by donating some money for wall fans in the library.
Others included Anita Ebuka and Dr Chigolum Eze, who have been awarding scholarships to students of the school.
She also thanked Dr Valentine Ozigbo, former Governorship Candidate in Anambra State, for coming up with a solution that helped her to achieve a better result, appealling to everyone to look into the various needs of the school and see where they could help in rebranding the school.

By: Canice Amadi, Enugu