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credit: @WatSanCollabCou What's sanitation without handwashing facilities? And, it doesn't have to be anything fancy either. 3 pieces of wood, an empty plastic bottle along with  These Instructions  are all you need. Yes, really, it *is* that simple.

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Did you know? If you get #cholera, it means "you've eaten faeces" (Dr Hagan, Ghana, via @InformGhana). A lot of the sicknesses in Ghana are due to us not getting rid of our 'private' properly. The contents of 'private' include: parasites, viruses, bacteria and worm eggs - all can cause severe disease in humans. Make your own toilet:   http://momwithaprep.com/potty/ http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html http://tinyurl.com/lctmgwm http://sunnyscope.com/diy-camping-toilet/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ioycfDNJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOOUxa4_K1g Deuteronomy 23:12-1412 "Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will n...

Continued from:  Stop Playing The Game Without Knowing The Rules At first the phenomena of nature were roughly divided into classes, like heat, electricity, mechanics, magnetism, properties of substances, chemical phenomena, light or optics , x-rays, nuclear physics, gravitation, meson phenomena, etc . Read   more:  Continue Reading

photo credit:   http://tinyurl.com/l5v3lx9 Continued from:  What Keeps You Up at Night? What do we mean by “understanding” something? We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes “the world” is something like a great chess game being played by the gods, and we are observers of the game. We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to  watch  the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules.  The rules of the game  are what we mean by  fundamental physics . credit:  http://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_02.html#Ch1-

Continued from:  Everything is made out of this. Everything The things with which we concern ourselves in science appear in (many) forms, and with a multitude of attributes. For example, if we stand on the shore and look at the sea, we see the water , the waves breaking , the foam , the sloshing motion of the water , the sound , the air , the winds and the clouds , the sun and the blue sky , and light ; there is sand and there are rocks of various hardness and permanence, color and texture. There are animals and seaweed , hunger and disease , and the observer on the beach; there may be even happiness and thought . Any other spot in nature has a similar variety of things and influences. It is always as complicated as that, no matter where it is. Curiosity demands that we ask questions, that we try to put things together and try to understand this multitude of aspects as perhaps resulting from the action of a relatively small number of elemental things and forces acting i...

Continued from:   http://tinyurl.com/pm6q2pg The atoms (of water) are  1  or  2 × 10 − 8  cm in radius. Now  10 − 8  cm is called an  angstrom  (just as another name), so we say they are 1 or 2 angstroms (Å) in radius. Another way to remember their size is this: if an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple. Now imagine this great drop of water with all of these jiggling particles stuck together and tagging along with each other. The water keeps its volume; it does not fall apart, because of the attraction of the molecules for each other. If the drop is on a slope, where it can move from one place to another, the water will flow, but it does not just disappear—things do not just fly apart—because of the molecular attraction. Now the jiggling motion is what we represent as  heat : when we increase the temperature, we increase the motion. If w...

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Q.   What do your friends call you? A.    Akyaa Q. Which age category best describes you? A.     20-30 Q. Where were you born? A.     I was born in Washington, DC. But I am a citizen of Ghana by parentage and I grew up in Kumasi. Q. What do you do in your life? A.     I am an environmental technologist. I believe in using technology to solve environmental problems. I specialize in sanitation. Q.    The sanitation problems in Ghana are enormous. What has been your experience working in the sector? A.     Working in sanitation in Ghana is challenging. Its very challenging. The needs are great and the biggest obstacle to progress is institutional failure and lack of political will to find permanent fixes to the sanitation challenges of Ghana's citizens. The problems are obvious and the solutions aren't so far from us but its infrastructural, its institutional. You can't have waste water treatment without a...

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http://tinyurl.com/mxdk5nn Sanitation and hygiene contribute to dignity and social development, improved health, economic development and is good for the environement.  Best of all, Ghana could get money from the Global Sanitation Fund towards sanitation – have a look! Counties that have already applied for funding includes: Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Benin, Kenya and Pakistan. Did you know that there is help available for Ghana's sanitation problems? Many countries( like India and Madagascar) struglling with sanitation have already received help.

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Pasteur, Koch and Jenner are Nobel Prize winning scientists who proved WITHOUT A DOUBT that infectious diseases are caused by small animals (microorganisms). One gram (almost as small as a grain of sand) of faeces (toilet) may contain as many as 50 diseases! In 2014, as we pray for health and prosperity for ourselves and people in our communities, let's work hard to ensure that practices like 'flying toilets' (when people go in plastic bags and throw them out in the open, http://www.cleanteamtoilets.com/the-problem/) become a thing of the past. "Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers".  3 John 1:2

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What Ghanaians want visitors to Ghana to see: What visitors to Ghana actually see: In 2014, let's clean up our image by turning to our family/friends/neighbours and communities and say "Please, Stop Trashing Ghana". It's not just our image that's at stake when we neglect environmental hygiene and sanitation, our very lives are at stake.