In a bid to improve access to sanitation in Lagos public schools, WaterAid Nigeria has laid the foundation of one of the WASH facilities in Oregun Junior High School in Ikeja.
The project facilitated by WaterAid Nigeria with the support of Cummins, is part of intervention aimed at strengthening communities through sustainable water for twenty million people by 2025.
At the groundbreaking of the project, the Country Director, WaterAid Nigeria, Ms Evelyn Mere, thanked the Lagos State government for the enabling environment to construct the project, which will go a long way in increasing school enrolment, completion and transition rate among public schools students in Lagos.
She noted that the intervention also supports the Lagos State Educational Transformation Plan 2020 by improving WASH facilities and services in schools and correctional facilities in the state.
While commending Cummins and WaterAid Nigeria for their unwavering support to qualitative education in Lagos, representative of the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mrs. Akinlade Omolayo, who is Director of Education Resource Centre, said the foundation laying serves as a collective commitment to providing students with the needed tools to succeed in school.
On his part, representative of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Jude Oyedele, who stated that initiative would leave a lasting impact on the education community, urged other private sector to join hands with the government in building more infrastructure in schools.
The cost for all WASH projects, geared to provide services for over seventy-six thousand residents in eight locations across Lagos till 2025, is estimated at one billion naira.
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