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Bongo District in Upper East Region, is one of the driest areas of Ghana with a population of just over 103,000 people. More than 30 boreholes had to be taken out of use because of dangerously high levels of fluoride in some underground water, causing damage to the bones and teeth of the people who... Read more...
The Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) has since 2011, implemented Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in 30 districts in Uganda. As a result,over 6,000 villages have been triggered and over 3 million people are living in Open Defecation Free (ODF) areas. Jane Nabunnya Mulumba , IRC Uganda Country... Read more...
A study commissioned by Plan International on the sustainability of CLTS programs in Africa revealed that 87% of the households still had a functioning latrine. Read more...
North Tarawa in Kiribati is the first island in the Pacific to be declared open defecation free, thanks to the “Kiriwatsan I Project”. The Ministry of Public Works is implementing this project with technical support from UNICEF and funding from the European Union. In March 2013, North Tarawa... Read more...