In March 2026 we received a letter from Nicholas Osei-Wusu, the Assembly Member for the Nintin Electoral Area (communities of Ninting and Hwidiem), requesting our help with household toilet facilities for the community of Ninting.
Ninting is a village of about 3,000 residents located immediately before the Mampong Scarp on the road from Mampong toward Kumasi. The people are mainly subsistence farmers who supplement their income by selling surplus produce to commuters along the main road. The community sits in low-lying terrain, which makes poor sanitation particularly hazardous.
Ninting has two existing public toilets, neither of which is functioning adequately. The original KVIP was built by Interbeton (the foreign company that constructed the Kumasi–Ejura–Atebubu highway) in the late 1980s as a CSR commitment; it has long outlived its useful life and now poses a health and environmental hazard next to the local R/C Primary School. A second facility built by the Mampong Municipal Assembly about 15 years ago cannot be used due to the acute scarcity of water supply in the area. As a result, residents have no option but to practise open defecation in backyards and nearby bushes. Rampant cases of typhoid and other waterborne and airborne diseases are a serious concern for the Municipal Health and Education directorates.
This project follows the same model as our completed latrine project in Bunuso, where we built 101 private household latrines for a similarly sized community. We will build 100 household latrines in Ninting. Each latrine is a brick-built pit latrine with a vent pipe and a lockable door. Where a household cannot be given its own latrine in the first phase, it will share with a neighbour. We hope to raise funds for further phases in due course.
A community committee will be formed to oversee the latrines and maintain a small fund for repairs.