PED Initiative for Rural Africa Development

The fight against HIV/AIDS will be a mirage if the issues of discrimation and stigmatisation against people living and affected by HIV/AIDS are not properly tackled..
We are committed to educating people and communities on preventive measures and to ensure people and communities are free from stigma and discrimination.

PED Initiative for Rural Africa Development (PiRAD) joins the global community to celebrate the world toilet day. The theme for this year 2024 celebration is "sanitation for peace".
PiRAD is calling on all with no exception to tackle the global sanitation crisis to reach the million people who are still living without safe sanitation. To building a fairer and more peaceful world today, immediate actions are needed to improve and protect people's access to sanitation.
3.5 billion people still live without safely managed sanitation, including 419 million who practice open defecation (WHO/UNICEF, 2023).
PiRAD remains resolute and committed to tackle open defecation in rural communities through its flagship one Household, one Toilet project and contribute its quota in achieving one of the targets of SDG 6; "safe toilets for all by 2030"

Together with other CSOs and the Global Community, PED Initiative for Rural Africa Development (PiRAD) participated in the 2024 edition of National Climate Change and Green Economy week organized by the Government of Ghana and led by the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The street procession from circle to EPA headquarters in Accra was to create awareness on climate change that has become the biggest threat to livelihoods and the Ghanaian economy with wide ranging effects like drying of rivers, climate induced diseases, food crisis, bush fires etc..

PED Initiative for Rural Africa Development (PiRAD) is breaking the ground with its one Household one Toilet Flagship Project. The project seeks to declare rural communities still practicing Open defecation, free by initiating a people-led toilet facility construction at the local level. The project is a contribution towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 target 2 which is achieving access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations.

PiRAD is leading the fight against open defecation in rural communities in the Volta region of Ghana.