Last week I visited Kumasi on my way back up to Tamale to see what my colleague Mark Boots is up to with his venture Voto and to get a bit of a tour of the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Science and Technology. We also got a chance to sit in on a meeting run through one of IDEO.org’s projects called Clean Kumasi. They’re trying to tackle sanitation issues in a neighbourhood in Kumasi where the practice of open defecation is common. They’re working with the community and aim to go through a Community Led Total S
We got a bit lost trying to find where the facilitators, Fausti and Doreen, were holding the meeting but found one of Clean Kumasi’s signs, urging residents to text a number if they noticed feces in the area. As we were waiting by the sign trying to figure out where to go next, a woman walking by asked us if we were the ones putting the signs there. We said no and asked her what she knew about them. She said she didn’t know anything, or who put them there. We asked if she had ever called or texted the numbe
All photos credited to Mark Boots