Bowa’s interest in the topic stems from his focus on public health-Lusaka’s lack of a comprehensive waste management system can lead to poor hygiene and illness.
Professor Kasonde Bowa (left), who is Executive Dean of Medicine at the University of Lusaka, works with Lusaka residents on solutions for waste management. “ also impacted negatively on the city’s effort to harness its full potential as the hub for tourism and African culture.” Tetteh-Nortey hopes that putting toilets in homes will reduce rates of communicable diseases like cholera, while making the city more appealing for investment. “Poor environmental sanitation and hygiene has been the challenge residents in the neighborhood are bedeviled with,” Tetteh-Nortey says.
Currently, many residents of Moshie Zongo have to pay to use the limited number of public toilets. Through the Mayors Challenge, these civil servants are hiring unemployed young people to construct sustainable container-based toilets in area homes. Joshua Nii Noye Tetteh-Nortey (second from left), a social development planner in Kumasi, speaks with other members of the Mayors Challenge team-from left: Osei Assibey Bonsu, Yvonne Naboo and Michael Agyemang-at an event with residents of Moshie Zongo, a low-income area of the city.
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