On the 11th October,2022, the students and school management of Festac Girls Senior Secondary School, Festac Town, Amuwo Odofin were overjoyed having to officially receive their revamped toilet.
The initiative which was championed by NYSC Corp member’s in collaboration with Hypo Toilet Cleaner’s management team saw to an official commissioning and handover which was led by led by the Lagos State Coordinator, Mrs. Yetunde Baderinwa and also local government representatives in their commissioning exercise.
Asides from the Festac School, other schools who also benefited from the initiative were Central High School, Okota, and Araromi Nursery and Primary School, Gbagada
Earlier in the year, The Hypo Toilet Cleaner took the program a notch higher to introduce Hypo Toilet Rescue Volunteer program in partnership with NYSC at the orientation camp, Lagos to encourage youth Corp members to further go deeper in community development support to reduce open defecation in Nigeria.
The requirement was to register as Hypo Toilet Rescue volunteers and lookout for public facilities that requires quick intervention, especially institution of learning.
A few months after a set of twenty-four toilet facilities were commissioned across three schools by Hypo Toilet Cleaner in partnership with National Youth Service Corp, another fresh set of thirty-six rescued toilets were newly inaugurated in three government primary schools in Festac, Okota and Gbagada.
Festac Girls Senior Secondary School got twelve units; Central High School, Okota got sixteen units while Araromi Nursery and Primary School, Gbagada got 8 units of toilet rescued.
These toilet refurbishment activities were executed under the brand’s community development service initiative – Hypo Toilet Rescue project which was formally launched 2021 with the objective to tackle the growing rate of open defecation while promoting hygiene and safe toilet use in Nigeria.
During the commissioning exercise at Festac Girls Senior Secondary School, the school management expressed gratitude by not only presenting an award of appreciation to Hypo Toilet Cleaner but also performing a special musical rendition in honor of the humanitarian work extended towards them.
Ms. Aisha Akintokun, a student of Festac Girls Senior Secondary School, said
“we feel happy that Hypo has come to the rescue of our school easing the stress for us to be able to use the facility freely at anytime any day, we say thank you to Hypo for the good work they are doing.”
It will be recalled that the last set of commissioning of 24 units toilet happened in 3 schools namely, Ideal Girls School, Surulere; Satellite Town Nursery and Primary School 1 and Central School, Okota, all in Lagos state