International Projects

Our last project was to build the Nankese School toilet block in a  large village in Ghana, which has never had toilet facilities since it opened in 1945 – this toilet block was finished a couple of months ago and already has seen an increase in the number of pupils attending, particularly girls who had nowhere to go to support their menstruation demands. Right are pics from the Village By Village facebook page which says ”Today we open the new toilet block at Nankese Primary School. These toilets will serve over 350 children, providing them access to sanitation. Funded by Derby Rotary and the Rotary Club of Chesterfield Scarsdale this toilet block will prevent disease and promote good health through sanitation”.

The Rotary Club of Derby has an ongoing campaign to support education in remote Africa, particularly for girls, working with a UK based charity, Village By Village, supporting individual projects to help this to happen. Our recent successful Wine Bluff event will support our next project with them which is the provision of water collection, purification and handwashing facilities for a school of over 1,000 pupils in a remote Ghanian town, which has never had any handwashing facilities, since it opened over 30 years ago.