The Ghana Gas Company Limited has handed over two sanitary facilities at the Mfantsiman Girls High School at Saltpond.
The two facilities has 12-seater water closets, with overhead water tanks, sinks and hand dryers were built at the east and west ends on the campus. This will help students get a more conducive facility.
Places of convenience for the more that 3,000 girls were limited and some were not in good condition.The Headmistress of Mfantsiman Girls, Mrs. Phyllis Arthur-Simpson, said “as an institution for adolescents girls, places of convenience were critical to their well-being and to ensure effective learning.”She said the school, therefore, appealed to the then Board Chairperson of the company, Ms. Christine Churcher, and the late Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mr. Ekow Quansah Hayford, who worked to get Ghana Gas to commence the project.
Graphic online stated that, Ghana Gas initiated that project as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR).The Senior Manager, Community Relations and CSR, Mr. Stephen Donkor, said the company was motivated by the fact that the facilities would better the sanitary infrastructure for the girls and added that girls especially required decent places of convenience.He said the company would make its impact felt in communities all over the country by improving infrastructure and supporting community and institutional development.
He urged the students and management of the school to ensure the facility was well maintained.”We want to come back to see the facility in a good and usable condition,” he stated.
Source:latestghana.news
