Antonio Korkuvi (3rd left) presenting the bins to Seth Adu Annorson while other officers look on
Eighty public basic schools and sixteen markets in the Greater Accra Region have received waste bins to pilot proper waste management practices.
The bins, distributed by Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO), a pan-African non-governmental organisation (NGO) that specialises in waste management, will be used to separate organic and plastic waste for effective processing and management.
A total of 200 waste bins have been distributed for the pilot project, which is taking place in 80 public basic schools in the region, and it is expected to last for six months before it would be reviewed, as the result of the piloting will determine which interventions should follow the piloting process.
Speaking at one of such presentation ceremonies at the Ledzokuku Municipal Directorate of Education in Teshie last Thursday, the project coordinator for Green Africa Youth organisation, Mr. Antonio Yayrator Korkuvi, hinted that all the beneficiary schools are to be trained in how to turn the organic waste into compost.
This, he explained, was to help the schools use them for the production of crops and other ornamental plants in their schools, saving transportation and other costs.
He appealed to the beneficiary institutions to take good care of the bins so they will last longer to serve the purpose of their distribution.
Mrs. Theresa Tetteh, the Ledzokuku Municipal Director of Education, in an address read for her by Mr. Seth Adu Annorson, officer in charge of Supervision and Monitoring at the Directorate, thanked the NGO for the donation and pledged to take good care of them to merit the purpose of their distribution.
She pledged to ensure that all the beneficiary institutions will make good use of the bins to promote a healthy life in and around the school environment.
The Municipal Director stated that the directorate had put in place prudent measures and strategies to create conducive environment for effective teaching and learning in all their schools.
The Ledzokuku Municipal Directorate of Education received 16 bins, of which eight will be used for the collection of organic waste while the remaining eight will be used for the collection of plastic waste.