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Hello everyone,

We have thankfully completed our 6 months project at Asamang and Drobong in Ghana and have had a very rewarding experience. This is what you helped us to achieve:

 what we did:














  • we delivered numerous public education seminars on sanitation and hygiene as well as showing the public how to make an anti mosquito cream and an improved basic stove construction.
  • we volunteered at a a creche where we taught the little kids to maintain hand hygiene
  • we campaigned for an end to littering and public urination by publishing an article on ModernGhana website (http://www.modernghana.com/news/460212/1/so-you-think-you-love-ghana-.html) and printing t'shirts for some community members
  • we donated a projector to Asamang SDA church (All Nations congregation)
  • we donated story books and stationery to Jewish Joy Creche at Asenua, Kumasi

 What we achieved:
School seminars (kids aged 10-15 years of age)
At the end of the 6months, we evaluated some of the measurable impact of the program. At Asamang SDA school, we assessed what the students knew about cholera prevention and treatment.

  • most of the kids knew that cholera transmission was via the faecal oral route
  • few retained knowledge on the treatment of cholera at home

Church hall seminars (community members)
  • many of the adults made their own anti mosquito cream 
  • no one had attempted construction of the modified stove.

Future plans





Mr Bediako (EduAfrique's community worker) has been given a laptop, camera and has access to the projector to continue the public education on sanitation and hygiene.


The EduAfrique team sends you our heartfelt gratitude for helping us initiate this project in Ghana. We'll continue to sustain the messages on the neccessity of sanitation and hygiene to health in communities around Ghana.


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