The Ghana Sustainable Aid Project and KA Anno Engineering believe that the best approach to solving the sanitation crisis in the developing world is through affordable toilet ownership. To this end we have developed multiple plans from individual toilet ownership to co-op ownership.



Co-op ownership includes a District, an Assembly, a Village Council, a Development Association, or even a Private Party or Organization purchasing a facility for a group consisting of one or more families/households. Each family/household has a share in the facility and makes a small monthly payment until the facility loan is repaid; the repaid funds are then used to build new Co-ops and so on.



Typical fees are expected to be between 1 GHC and 1.5 GHC per person per month (a fraction of the fees for using a public toilet) and repayment is expected to take about 36 months, after which the family owns its share of the facility.



Facilities of 1 stall to 10 stalls are typical and these are available with or without rainwater harvesting for the fresh handwashing water. Each stall is capable of supporting up to 40 uses per day. The Co-op toilet is by far a better option than a public toilet, for which the lack of individual ownership and responsible oversight sadly results in an unkempt, unsanitary, disease-ridden facility.



Read more about our toilet technologies here.