By: Avela Gontsana
On the 14th of May 2021 Wild Coast Sun under Sun International along with their local shareholders (Mbizana Development Trust and Mgungundlovu CPA) handed over flushable toilets to Khanyisani SP School at Luna in Nyaka location. Luna community members and the neighboring Schools celebrated this moment with Khanyisani, they congratulated them for being finally over the nightmare of using those scary and dangerous pit toilets which the department is also working on doing away with. This follows a tragic death of a learner at one of their nearby schools (Luna JSS) due to the use of pit toilets which resulted in a temporally closer of school (Khanyisani) after being ordered by the department to demolish the toilets, the school reopened with the use of mobile toilets.
The acting district director for Alfred Nzo east department of education Mrs Khuzwayo said the gesture of Wild Coast Sun in donating these ablution facilities is perfectly aligned with the department’s plan of enrolling flush toilets in schools she went on and said their timing is just perfect, these toilets with hand wash sinks are just what the school needs at this time of the pandemic where learners and educators have to wash hands more often. Mrs Khuzwayo urged the community members to protect their schools and the school to maintain these toilets. Mrs Khuzwayo said the department recognizes and appreciates everything that the Wild Coast Sun is doing to assist the department as it is not the first time having similar event “Wild Coast Sun have donated science kits to twenty high schools, built kitchen in Dlungwana SPS and there is also an upcoming library Project around Casino” Said Mrs Khuzwayo while expressing her gratitude to the Wild Coast Sun team.
