Projects

WATSAN - Water and Sanitation

Ever since we started our DSDO sanitation and water journey, we have had a WATSAN committee in place to oversee the entire operations of the town toilet facilities and the water system. In November, there was an extensive overhaul.

It was time for a refresh!  This sports court at Dekpor Basic School is used pretty much all day, every day!  From the students at school to the after school town teams, the multisport court is a hot commodity!

There were many back-straining man-hours put into resurfacing and repainting...but gosh, it looks great!

Face it...poop happens!  And, to be perfectly honest, we're really glad it is happening IN the town toilet facilities. Brutal truth -- open defecation is a very real health health hazard in many rural areas.  We've built the facilities and it has taken a long time to gradually get people to use them, so we are actually rather pleased with ourselves when the holding tanks need to be pumped out!  We consider this a big win! Four of the buildings were looked after between November 30th and December 4th:  Yia #1, Yia #2, Yia #, and Dome.

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With years of heavy use, furniture inevitably ends up requiring repairs. Here you see some of October and November's work in progress. 

With approximately 800 students enrolled at Dekpor Basic School, we need to have somewhere for them to sit!

 It is with many thanks to Susan and Tony Anderson that we were able to get this done.

Woohoo! We have ourselves an instrument storage room now! All instruments have been inventoried and now there is a designated, secure place to keep all these beauties! Thanks to Susan and Tony Anderson for making this possible.

Back in 2011, Andrew Sanderson gave

Our child sponsorship programme is making a huge difference for some extremely needy

Here we go again! This is the third building that required a roof reno. Thank goodness there are finally long roofing sheets available in Ghana! Due to the previous roofing materials, (short sheets, straight nails--not spiralled), constant winds lifting the sheets, and torrential rains, the wooden trusses below would frequently get exposed to the rain which inevitably caused them to rot. There was great teamwork to get this completed in a couple of days! 

Another grateful thank you to Susan and Tony Anderson for financing this project!

Now that custom full length roofing sheets can be sourced in Ghana, it was necessary to replace some of the roofs on the buildings at Dekpor Basic School.   Here you can see the administration building getting a facelift.

A big thanks to Susan and Tony Anderson's donation for allowing us to tackle the necessary buildings!