More than 15 talented Ghanaian artists, have planned to display their handworks as part of a countrywide campaign to combat open defecation, which kills nearly 4,000 children every year through diarrhoea. “The intended programme is to involve Ghanaian artists in talking about issues pertaining to open defecation,” Mr Fabrice Laurentin, Communication for Development Specialist at UNICEF told journalists during a visit to the shops of six of artists. The tour enabled the media to interact with the artists expressing their views on issues concerning open defecation through the use of visual arts. “Even among those working in the field, we constantly hide behind clean-sounding words like sanitation, latrine, Wash [water sanitation and hygiene], open defecation. “Let’s replace words like sanitation and open defecation with toilets and shitting outside.”Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Source: All Ghana News September 06, 2016 15:11 UTC