The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), in partnership with the Ghana Education Service (GES), has announced that sanitation and hygiene would be taught as a new subject in primary schools.
The curriculum was developed to teach children about the need to practice good sanitation and hygiene-related issues and also to sustain the gains that the ministry has chalked since its introduction in 2017.
Speaking at the Launch of the Ghana Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector Development Programme (GWASHSDP) in Accra on June 13, the Minister of MSWR, Mrs. Cecilia Abena Daapah said “This will help children inculcate the idea of practising hygiene and keeping the environment clean at all times from the tender age as they grow.”
She said the subject areas will cover issues of sanitation and hygiene, protecting the environment and other areas.
Mrs. Daapah said since the establishment of the Sanitation and Water Resources Ministry, the country has not recorded an outbreak of cholera and dysentery.
“I believe that if Ghana can sustain the gains of the ministry going forward sanitation and hygiene-related issues will improve in the country,” she stated
She commended President Nana Akufo-Addo for establishing the ministry adding that Ghana is among the fourth nation in Africa to have created a Sanitation Ministry.
