Gbartala, Bong County – Deborah Gonkpah, a fellow of SHE-CAN, a United States-based non-profit organization that is building women’s leadership in post-conflict countries, has constructed two pit latrines for residents of Gbartala in Bong County. Valued at over US$ 600, the latrines will will serve over five hundred residents. Gonkpah also said her decision to construct latrines for residents of Gbartala is to discourage the traditional and unhygienic practice of defecating in bushes or open fields. She encouraged residents of Gbartala to wash their hands with soap before meals and after using the toilets, inorder to prevent diarrhoea and cholera. SHE-CAN is a US-based non-profit that is building women’s leadership in post-conflict countries.
