Project Ghana - Sokode Sanitation
1) Water - Community Borehole
Boreholes are deep wells that access aquifers sometimes hundreds of feet beneath the surface and pump clean water to an above ground storage tank that can be accessed on tap
Our team has partnered with a local drilling company and is set to begin drilling in April 2025.
There is one working borehole in the community, but its limited capacity can’t sustain the whole community.
Walk to the processing facility in Dzita
Compost toilet facility at a school in Dzita, Ghana built by NGO
View of opened compost toilet chamber ready for transfer to processing facility
Our chapter’s current international project is based in Sokode Ando, Ghana and aims to improve public health through the construction of sustainable sanitation infrastructure.
Without infrastructure to manage human waste, ground water gets contaminated. Without infrastructure to deliver clean water, people rely on that groundwater for cooking, cleaning, washing, and drinking.
We’re working to address both of these infrastructure gaps.
Inspecting a nonfunctioning borehole in the community.
2) Private Compost Toilets
Compost toilets convert human waste into fertilizer by combining it with sawdust, food waste, and bulky green matter (eg. coconut husk). Benefits of this method are that it doesn’t require water, it is odorless, and it repurposes many types of waste, transforming a sanitation problem into a sustainable resource.
Inspired by the work of NGO Dream Big Ghana, our team is designing single-family and multi-
stall compost toilets and a processing facility to manage output from both.
In August 2025, our team will return to Sokode Ando to begin phase 1 of construction, with the phases outlined below.
Compost Toilet Construction Phases:
Phase 1: Construct one multi-stall school facility, 1-5 single family units, and a processing facility
Phase 2: Review phase 1 units, construct multi- stall facilities for the medical clinic and another school, construct as many more single-family units as in budget, and expand processing facility
Phase 3: Construct as many single-family units as in budget, construct additional multi-stall facility if applicable, expand processing facility
Phase 4: Long term monitoring process