SDG 6 UN definition: By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.
Book
Title:The
Adventures
of
Hurricane
and
Tornado
II
Author:Godred
Edusei
Derkyi
Illustrator:Godred
Edusei
Derkyi
Publisher:
Edusei
Derkyi
(Ghana)
ISBN:978-9988-3-1533-7
Kataba is a village located on the banks of the White Volta River in the East Gonja Municipality of the Northern region of Ghana. On the journey there to visit their cousins, Amina and Ayigsi, readers will once again meet Hurricane and Tornado, two lively and resourceful sisters they met on an earlier adventure: The Adventures of Hurricane and Tornado: Episode 1 - Building A Boat Now, the girls are touring landmarks of Ghana. They view the waterfalls of Boti and Akaa and The Umbrella Rock in the Eastern region and more. Travel by boat and by car across the country transforms this children/YA book from a compelling and readable work of advocacy for clean water into an impressively scenic travel journal. And the author misses no opportunity to impart knowledge. Children will learn something about the design and mechanics of the Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam/ Lake Volta- a man-made reservoir with the widest surface area in the world and Ghana?s biggest supplier of electricity. The people of Kataba struggle daily to access potable water. During Hurricane and Tornado?s productive and memorable visit, the girls become heroes, designing COWAPS - a water-purification system for the villagers. With great photographs, maps, watercolour prints and diagrams by the author, Godfred Edusei Derkyi.
Book
Title:
Nii
Noi,
The
Sanitation
Officer
Author:Naomi
Adjei
Illustrator:
Felix
Gyapong
Publisher:
Adwinsa
Publications
(Ghana)
Website:
www.adwinsa.net
"Often we litter because the place is already dirt. What starts out as just a sachet grows into a heap then a dump" (Nii Noi, The Sanitation Officer by Naomi Adjei) This book is excellent. Richly illustrated and vibrant with the local colours of Ghana, it charts young Nii?s evolution from an environmentally conscious child into a de facto sanitation officer in his community. Nii is resourceful, full of ideas for the disposal of waste, policing his lively school friends who show far less reverence for their environment. Readers will be introduced to inspiring and fun ways to mark World Recycling Day which falls every year on 18th March. They will find important lessons in waste management and disposal successfully woven into a story that is action-packed, colourfully populated and starring a very bright Nii - a resourceful SDG 6 advocate.
Book
Title:
Keza
and
the
Green
City
Author:
Mika
Hirwa
Twizerimana
Publisher:Imagine
We
(Rwanda)
Website:www.imaginewe.rq
The beautifully produced graphic story introduces children to climate change as a leading cause of heavy rains, floods, drought which can lead to forest fires. The novella looks at emissions from for example, factories and power plants, which lead to water pollution. Through the activities of Keza and friends in the Go Green Club, the story advocates for environmental clubs in schools which can teach good eco-practices such as harvesting rain. Keza and the Green City address a recurring theme of many African books addressing SDG 6: the sheer amount of children's time consumed by the activity of fetching water and the damaging effect on the education of children which is their right. The action in this positive book is a heart-warming example of children's self-advocacy and the democratic participation of children in public health. With forewords by the Ambassador of Germany to Rwanda and the Rwandan Minister of Environment affirming initiatives taken by the Rwandan government towards green cities, this is a polished publication. With wonderful illustrations by Mika Hirwa Twizerimana.
Book
Title:
Village
Girl
in
Town
Authors:
Oluyemisi
Modupe
Egunjobi
(DE
GOMEG)
Publisher:
Joycefitround
(JFR)Publishers/Educational
Services,
Nigeria
Website:www.jfrpublishers.com
Mojo, a 16 year old princess and heiress to Obanle Village longs to go to Lagos, a city about which she has heard exciting stories. She is keen to broaden her mind, having never stepped out of the utopian village of Obanle where her father, Ajani, is king. King Ajani is a good king - a well-educated and environmentally conscious man who has put in place good public health practices in his village. Lagos is a city he does not remember well and he does not want his daughter to go to. But Mojo is determined. Finally under the protection of her uncle Ade, a driver in the city, she travels there, only to discover an insanitary, noisy city in which the quality of life is poor. What a contrast with her own village of Obanle, where the quality of life is high. Mojo learns the importance of collective responsibility for the health of the environment and learns also that the health of the individual is tied to the collective health of the community. Mojo is a delightful girl and her visit to the city of Lagos makes for an engrossing read. The author has successfully woven valuable public health education into the storyline. With captivating chapter headings and great illustrations.
Book
Title:
My
Book
of
Wash
Stories
Authors:
Rex
Dwomoh
Boateng,
Nana
Yaa
Boakyewaa-Donkor
and
Bibiana
Owusu
Gyasi
Prempeh
Illustrators:
Rex
Dwomoh
Boateng
and
Nana
Yaa
Boakyewaa-Donkor
Publisher:The
Literacy
Office,
Department
of
Publishing
Studies
PMB,
KNUST
Kumasi
(Ghana)
"Somebody, please help! Sunkwa needs help immediately". (My Wash Stories by R. Boateng, N. Yaa Boakyewaa-Donkor, B. Owusu Gyasi Prempeh) An adventure story featuring 3 Adoley, Dankwah and Abena, school friends in middle-childhood who live in the Ghanaian village of Sunkwa and a proactive school teacher on his National Youth Service year. Mr. Anku teaches his pupils about WASH - a UNICEF program to help people live in good sanitary conditions. WASH is an acronym for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. Sunkwa?s households have no toilet facilities, or waste disposal systems. The village gutters are old, choking with liquid and solid waste and are a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Because the gutters are connected to the River Omansuo, the river is polluted and the people of Sunkwa fall very sick every day. Alongside their proactive teacher who writes to UNICEF for funds for a communal village toilet which the villagers build, the children - WASH ambassadors- deploy the WASH program to save their village from malaria and water-borne disease. An excellent, colourfully populated story and a polished publication dedicated to, "…all the children of the world who are passionate about our environment and strive to maintain a good environment at all times". With great illustrations by Rexford Dwomoh Boateng and Nana Yaa Boakyenwaa-Donkor.
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