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The Africa Toilette Foundation (ATF), a Non-Governmental Organisation is to construct 20,000 community based toilet projects across the country, by the end of March 2016.

The project which would be funded by 16 different donors is expected to help solve the problem of access to clean toilet facilities in communities across the country.

Captain Thomas Morghan-Acquaah, Chief Executive Officer of the ATF made this observation at the launch of the Foundation, on the theme: “Declaring state of emergency on access to clean and hygienic public toilets and other places of convenience in Ghana,” in Accra.

He said the organisation is partnering with government to embark on the project which would be constructed by local contractors and managed by the Foundation.

Captain Morghan-Acquaah said each unit of the project would cost GH₡200.000.00 and comprise of 12 seater toilets each for men and women as well as a public shower, biogas project, and a borehole.

He said the project is expected to commence on December 1, and the first one, which would be in Akyim Akroso is expected to be commissioned by December 15.

He noted that the facility would be fully managed by the Foundation and would not be handed over to the District Assemblies because of poor management of similar projects by government over the years.

“The usage of the facility would be commercialized in order to be able to maintain it at all times. And revenue generated from it would be used in constructing more boreholes to provide portable drinking water to communities,” he said.

Captain Thomas Morghan-Acquaah, emphasised that the Foundation would continue to partner government until the problem of access to clean toilets is solved.

He appealed to Ghanaians to individually and collectively help government and the local institutions to get solutions to the problem.