Plan Ghana is embarking on a project funded by Plan Netherlands to address issues on environmental health and sanitation problems in order to find lasting solutions to them. Consequently, a two-day workshop has been organised by Plan Ghana (an Organization formed under Plan International Global) for 26th to 27th April 2010 in collaboration with their network partners like UNICEF, WaterAid and other NGO's to deliberate on the project dubbed Community Led Total Sanitation, (CLTS). The project is aimed at empowering self help sanitation especially in communities with poor sanitation and rural areas in Africa and will encourage and educate communities with poor sanitation to build their own toilets without necessarily depending on governments to subsidize their projects. It is expected that communities which undertake the project will achieve what is termed as Open Defecation Free (ODF) and help to eradicate the spread of some diseases. Mr. Daniel Sarpong, a Senior Advisor on Water and Sanitation explained to Asempa News that the CLTS project which is community-based is what Ghana needs to solve the open defecation problems especially in rural and coastal areas. The CLTS project which will run for a period of 5 years has also been adopted by countries like Sierra Leone and Niger. Story by Maame Afua Enos/Asempa FM/Ghana