Queenmothers interact with Winneba market women
The Queenmothers Foundation of Ghana has interacted with market women and leaders of the Winneba Market on the need to maintain good sanitary practices in order to stay healthy.
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The members of the foundation also engaged the residents and people in nearby communities in discussions on good sanitation and the need to maintain clean and healthy environment.
The initiative was supported by the Ministry of Health.
The resource persons took participants through basic handwashing practices that would help stop the spread of cholera and other food-related and water-borne diseases.
According to the President of the foundation, Nana Ama Serwaa Bonsu, the programme was organised by the foundation as part of the sensitisation campaign to stop the spread of water-borne diseases.
Clean surroundings
She advised the market women to keep their surroundings clean and also desist from selling adulterated foods and expired products.
The foundation had held a similar programme at the Ashaiman market, during which they interacted with the market women to support efforts to champion good sanitary practices within the market and its environs.
At that function, resource persons from the Food and Drugs Authority and the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly Health Directorate enlightened the women on the dangers of food adulteration and expired products as well as preventive measures against the spread of cholera.
That initiative was supported by the Ministry of Health and the Australian High Commission in Ghana, under the Direct Aid Programme