Completion & Commission of a sponsored project of WFWP-Japan in Ghana
By. Marthe Whyte
WF-Ghana has been over the years supported by volunteers of WF-Japan in carrying out various service projects in Ghana. This year, WF-Japan sponsored the construction of a Bio digester Modern Toilet facility in the Amamorley Methodist school in, a community located in the greater Accra region.
The project begun in the month of January 2025 and by the beginning of June 2025, the building was ready to be commissioned. For this important occasion, WF-Ghana received an eight (8) members team of Japanese volunteers headed by the WFWPI president, Mrs. Moriko Hiro and the Project leader, Mrs. Nomura. Supported by three (3) main Executives of WF-Ghana in the position of the Chapter president, Mrs. Marthe Whyte, the project coordinator, Mrs. Emelia Adofo and the General Secretary, Mrs. Vivian Nkasia, the Japanese delegation was welcomed in the premises of Amamoley Methodist school in the morning of Monday, 16th June 2025.
They were welcomed by the school’s authorities, the Assembly man of the community and dignitaries from the Education service of the Region. About three hundred (300) students took part in the ceremony, together with a few parents from the community. The program begun with a welcome address from the school headmistress, Mrs. Gertrude Awuletey. Mrs. Marthe Whyte, WF-Ghana chapter president gave a speech on the background of the project after introducing the International President, Mrs. Moriko Hori and Mrs. Nomura as heads of the Japanese delegation in Ghana.
Then, our Japanese volunteers gave a 10 minutes education on hand washing using visual teachings aids to improve hygiene in the life of school children. To conclude the education section, they distributed handkerchiefs to about 100 students as representatives of the students body. Then came the moment for our Japanese volunteers and WF-Ghana executives to donate sanitary items to the school’s authorities.
The items were made of buckets, mops, brooms, brushes, packs of toilet rolls, detergents, sanitizers, liquid soaps, powered soaps, disinfectants, air refreshers and veronica buckets. The final aspect of the project was the cutting of the Rubin to officially open the facility and the unveiling of the writing on the wall of the building by Mrs. Nomura, the project leader from Japan. This was followed by the handing over of the facility ‘s keys to the school’s Authorities.
The authorities and the WF members inspected the finished work after opening the doors. The school authorities, the chairperson, madam Ayishetu Abdulai who is the school health education program coordinator as well as the very Reverend George Westley Tagoe, the methodist Minister ot the urban circuit and Honorable Raymond Tetteh, the Assembly man of the community, all showed great appreciation for the donation made by WFWP-Japan via WFWP-Ghana.
The school’s authorities pledged to maintain the facility in a good condition, as they introduced to the audience their newly appointed Sanitation Committee made of about 25 students. During the event, the community members made a public pledge to help maintain the modern toilet facility clean to improve health in the school community.
