MyAfricanDreamz builds toilet facility for school

The Old Toilet

Barely six months of youth service, the Director of MyAfricanDreamz and a youth Corp member, Adenike Ashogbon, serving in Abia state has built two water closet toilet facilities for her primary place of assignment, Ujah College, Umuwanwa, Amuzu Ubakala in Ubakala Local Government Area of, Umuahia south, Abia State.

Adenike Ashogbon, a Mass Communication graduate of Lagos State Polytechnic while explaining the rationale behind the initiative, said she saw the need to build the facility as a result of the lack of a good toilet facility in the school.

She also stated that the project which is a personal community development initiative was carried out to enhance better and healthy living for all and sundry in the school, with the support of Hacey Health Initiative, a non-governmental organization which empowers and supports children, women and young people to live healthy and sustainably.

The New Toilet

Ashogbon, who is also a member of the Community Development Service, Millennium Development Goals, Family and Community Life (FACOL) Section in Abia state, said: “I saw the need to give the toilet a face-lift because the students make use of a pit which is unhygienic, while some of them make use of the bush for defecation, often times when the students go into the bush to defecate, they are confronted by snakes which is very dangerous because they might be attacked by the deadly snakes.

“While the construction of the toilet was going on, we were almost attacked by a snake and this tells you the kind of danger the students are prone to by going into the bush to defecate and even using the pit, this and some other reasons was why I decided to build something better for the school.” She said.

Ashogbon further stated that the two water closet toilet projects which were completed with a sum of Thirty Thousand Naira (N30,000), were built on an uncompleted toilet building which had been abandoned in the school for a very long time.