On this day, the African Day of the Child, the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition wishes to renew its commitment to working to ensure that every child in Africa enjoys the full course of free quality and enjoyable basic education, irrespective of gender, race ethnicity, religion and geography. The Coalition recognizes that one factor responsible for discrimination in access to quality basic education in Ghana is the provision of gender sensitive school infrastructure, notably separate toilets and urinals for girls and boys. The Coalition observes the lack of separate toilets for girls as a major cause of absenteeism for girls in schools. Adequate toilet facilities require the provision of separate and decent toilets and urinals for boys and girls in school. In 2008, the Ministry of Education reported that only 48% out of the total number of 13,247 primary schools have access to toilet facilities in Ghana with the highest proportion of primary schools with toilets (90%) in Tema and the lowest (10%) in Kintampo South District. At the Junior High School Level, only 52% of public schools had toilets with the highest (93%) in Dangbe West in the Greater Accra Region and the lowest (9%) in the Juabeso district in the Western Region. The absence of toilets for girls does not only affect school attendance but also contributes to the denial of their right to dignity and quality education. The national completion rate for boys at the primary level is 91% whereas that of girls is 79% which suggests that boys have 10% additional chances of completing primary school than girls. This is the reason why the gender parity ration is 1:0.96 as against the target of 1:1 that was missed as far back as 2005. GNECC traces the fundamental underpin to absence of adequate and separate toilets for girls, changing rooms and urinals in schools to the absence of a comprehensive and operational infrastructural policy of the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service. Toilets and urinals are not integrated in most school building plans. On this day, the African Day of the Child, we urge the Ministry of Education to take immediate steps to make the inclusion of separate toilets and urinals a non negotiable element in school building plans and to fully enforce the implementation of the policy on school infrastructure at the district levels to ensure that all schools have separate toilets and urinals for boys and girls. Together lets work to make schools safer for girls. Long Live the African child. Long live the Children of Ghana. Leslie Tettey National Coordinator