SANATU ZAMBANG STUDIOS (Podcast)

The global urban population is expanding rapidly. By 2030, two thirds of people are expected to live in towns and cities. Small town populations are expected to double within 15 years, and double again within 30 years. In developing countries, this growth is typically unplanned, and water, sanitation and hygiene services are not keeping up. Without these basics, the poorest people will increasingly suffer ill-health, missed education and a lack of opportunity. Getting clean water and sanitation to informal settlements in cities is often complex, and it is no easier in smaller towns. Poor and marginalised people often have to rely on informal water vendors, who charge much more than service providers. Most urban dwellers rely on on-site sanitation – they use septic tanks and pit latrines (which are often not emptied), or have no choice but to defecate in the open and throw away their waste in plastic bags. Disease outbreaks are increasing in these high-density settle...

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Around the world, 748 million people face a daily struggle to access enough good quality water. Having no choice but to drink dirty water, and lacking enough for washing, cooking, cleaning and food production, they get sick and their education and livelihoods suffer. Two things are critical for water security: good quality, well managed water resources and effective water supply services. Water resources cannot be easily accessed without pumps, pipes, taps, tanks and skilled people to manage them as part of a service. Similarly, water supply services alone are of little use without water resources. If either is unavailable or unreliable, people will not be water secure. All of the fresh water resources we depend on come from the natural environment. Rain flows in rivers and is stored in lakes, the soil or vast underground layers of rock called aquifers. The quantity and quality of available water can vary over time because of changes in the natural environment or thro...

Hygiene is crucial in preventing disease. Together with safe water and sanitation it can transform people’s health, education and livelihoods. Without good hygiene practices, such as handwashing with soap, the benefits of safe and sustainable water and sanitation services will always be undermined. Despite ongoing efforts and recent progress, diarrhoeal diseases are the second leading infectious cause of child deaths among children under five. Diarrhoea kills about 700,000 children younger than five each year. Severe diarrhoea is one of the most common reasons children are admitted to hospital in low-income and middle-income countries. ​ Something as simple as handwashing with soap can cut incidences of diarrhoea almost in half. However, hygiene remains one of the least prioritised areas of development. While it is, in theory, an integrated part of the global water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, in reality this is often not the case. Research shows that impro...

Today, 2.5 billion people do not have a safe and private toilet, and a billion have no choice but to defecate in the open. This is a deadly crisis. Where people don’t have safe water and adequate sanitation, disease spreads fast. Over 500,000 children die every year from diarrhoea as a result. For women and girls, no access to a toilet means no dignity, no privacy and no safety – they often wait until dark to find a quiet place to defecate, increasing the risk of attack or rape. Without toilets in schools, children are left to defecate in the open. This makes them vulnerable to diarrhoeal illnesses and causes them to miss lessons. Girls in particular are affected by a lack of private toilets, and often drop out completely when they start their periods. Recruiting teachers into schools without decent sanitation is also difficult. The knock-on effects are considerable. In many countries, the economic cost of poor sanitation and hygiene amounts to more than 5% ...

  Hygiene and sanitation promotion '' when done in culturally appreciate ways'' are among the most cost-effective health interventions   to prevent an individual from losing one year of health costs a mere $5 to $10. Which is equivalent to GH 16 to GH 32 per yea   Every $1 is equivalent to GH3.2 spent on water and sanitation generates $4.30, equivalent to GH13.76. In increased productivity and decrease health care cost..   .WASH programming reduce the number of child deaths related to diarrhea by 65percent.... Safe water and sanitation are crucial for preventing diarrhea disease in people living with HIV/AIDS,   whose immune systems are two to six times more susceptible to disease such as diarrhea. They also need adequate nutrition in order to respond to antiretroviral therapy. Poor WASH is linked to childhood under nutrition, cognitive delays and stunning. Open defection is a determinant of stunting and prevents children from growi...

The acronym “WASH” stands for water , sanitation, and hygiene . These basic necessities of life are not available to many people in developing countries all around the world. In fact, 748 million people do not have access to clean, safe drinking water and 2.5 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation.      An estimated 50 percent of undernutrition is due to inadequate water and sanitation. Malnutrition and diarrheal disease are closely linked. When it does not kill, repeated bouts of early childhood diarrhea can negatively affect physical and cognitive development. 4 Reductions in diarrheal disease, which could be achieved by providing improved sanitation and water supply, can prevent long-term morbidity and at least 860,000 child deaths a year caused by undermentioned .     Diarrhea and pneumonia are the two leading causes of child death in the world today Diarrhea and pneumonia, often ...

Of the world’s seven billion people, six billion have mobile phones.  Yet only 4.5 billion people have access to toilets or latrines — meaning that two and a half billion people, mostly in rural areas, do not have proper sanitation. There are 1.1 billion people still defecating in the open. In many countries, 95 per cent or more of the poorest fifth of the population practices open defecation. Despite progress since 1990, the poorest 40 per cent have seen minimal change. One out of every four people in the least developed countries practices open defecation.  Ending open defecation is not just about building toilets and latrines.  Poor sanitation has a direct impact on health, nutrition, education, gender equality and poverty reduction.  Ending open defecation will lead to a 35 per cent reduction in diarrhoea, which now results in over three quarters of a million deaths of children under five annually. Having to go outside the safety...

  OFIE KODJOE Ofie was born in New York where she received her primary school education, after which she returned with her family to Ghana and attended school at Aburi Girls Secondary School. She then moved back to the U.S. to pursue her tertiary education in New York. Music Thanks to her unique background, and her ability to adapt and relate to a broad spectrum of people, Ofie has built a large fan base, and her inspirational and powerful music delivery cuts through all social and age barriers. Ms. Kodjoe has been performing around the world for the past thirty years and has performed on such shows as BET’s “Walk of Fame” and “Celebration of Gospel”. She has been living her passion as a performing artist in Accra for the past five years and has made quite an impact on the Ghanaian music scene for the past three years, performing at Joe’s Bar at the Oak Plaza Hotel, Smollensky’s Rooftop Bar & Grill, +233 Jazz Bar, Taverna Tropicana, Sweeties Night Club,...

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) has the potential to prevent 8 percent of deaths and 10 percent of disease burden in developing countries. Approximately 19,000 Ghanaians, including 5, 100 children under 5 years die each year from diarrhoea.  Nearly 90% of which is directly attributed to poor water, sanitation and hygiene. In addition poor sanitation is a contributing factor through its impact on malnutrition rates - to the other leading cause of child mortality including malaria and measles. Universal access to water supply and sanitation would save more than $134 billion in annual health cost, lost productivity and reduce mortality. Open defection costs Ghana US$79 million per year-     yet eliminating the practice would require less than 1 million latrines to be built and used. Fiscal contamination of the environment is the root cause of an annual average of 1, 800 cases of cholera affecting Ghana. The cost of the necessary WASH respo...

Muslims believe that the Quran is a book of science, and that the Prophet Muhammad also revealed a number of scientific points. It is for this reason they are always quick to jump on the bandwagon for any scientific fact or claim that the West introduces. Unfortunately this eagerness can also lead to their ridicule, as they are also quick to provide help to spread the message for a number of false claims and outright lies, which they wrongly believe support the claim of Islam being the true religion. Two of these scientific falsities involve the space agency NASA, with claims that NASA has confirmed a revelation related to Islam. The first is that NASA has confirmed that the moon has previously been split into two pieces, and the second is that NASA has confirmed that the sun will rise from the west. Both of these alleged reports by NASA are absolutely false. The stories are still being spread around in a number of slightly different versions of the main story. In r...