Water Sanitation and Hygiene - Namulu

Visit by Enock Madolo on 2021-11-24

Report ID

15112

Created by

Enock Madolo

Created date

2021-11-25 13:43:52 UTC

Modified by

Lorna Katagara

Modified date

2021-12-16 11:50:51 UTC

Trip Time

10:29-19:25 (8 h 56 m)

Village Time

12:42-17:11 (4 h 29 m)

Travel Time

4 h 27 m

Large group meetings

Men in Attendance

42 

Women in Attendance

20 

Staff Attendees

Enock Madoolo 

Government Attendees

LC1,Health Assistant,VHT,Parish Chief 

Vistior Attendees

2 

Total Attendance

62 

Program

Water Sanitation and Hygiene 

Lesson Taught

triggering 

Notes

Enock and Keneth made a visit to this community to meet the community residents and conduct triggering in sanitation and hygiene using the community lead total sanitation approach. As the two arrived they met with the local leaders who where waiting under the tree for other community members to also reach so as to start the triggering session. Before the meeting started, the health assistant Debora and parish chiefs also joined them. At about half past 2pm we had about 34 men and 20 women, the chairman LC1 open the meeting, talked to Mr Ogema who welcomed everyone for the meeting and gave Us time to speak to the community and teach the all the lessons of sanitation and hygiene. Enock started by introducing kibo group to the community, what we do and why we are there for the triggering session. He then asked one community residents to come and draw a map of their village, show all the routes and locations of borehole, churches, mosques and schools all in different colors for clear identification. Then after they asked all the residents to trace and place their homes on the map. After that demonstrated we talked about poor sanitation and opened defecation. Keneth came in to carry out the fiscal matter calculation which was open participation where he posed questions like how many kilos of feces one person defecates a day and asked about the whole population number multiplied and got a total of open defecation which causes a lot of diseases like diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, tetanus, bilharzia and more. During the session Enock came back to talk about the medical expenses and expenditures which many people don’t calculate when their children are sick just because of ignorance and yet they spend so much money while treating their children. He asked for which common disease which affects everyone in the community and people said diarrhea. We took diarrhea as the main disease which affects so many children. We asked questions of how much money os used for buying the first medicine for treating diarrhea for children in their village to the main hospital, talked about the expenses on feeding in the hospital, how much money spent on buying water drips and more medication as we demonstrated all the expenses on the board for all the he residents to see clearly how money accumulates since they many not have time to calculate it, yet all the expenses can be solved by proper sanitation and hygiene. As we reached at the point of death expenses due to open defecation and poor sanitation diseases, their is a gentle man who stood up and testified for loosing a child due to open defecation and it was emotional. The good news was he helped us to communicate the burial expenses from feeding the community, buying all the materials to use, buying chicken for his in-laws and it all mounted to 1.8m combined with the medical expenses. The community residents of namulu saw how it’s super expensive, and asked how much money does a child life costs and all the residents responded and said life doesn’t have any cost and every life matters. After we asked the community how much a latrine would cost them to construct. Most people said it’s very cheap some people can dig a 15ft deep latrine pit then used the available materials to construct the latrine structure. All the residents agreed latrine is cheap and can save them a lot of medical expenses. We then showed them the examples of bad or poor latrines as some residents pointed to some homes which they new had similar latrines, as some men and women where laughing at those homes since their are neighbors or community friends. After we showed them the good latrines and they liked the examples of the good latrines which they vowed to construct. Taught them how to construct good standard facilities for latrines, shower areas, kitchen areas, rubbish pits, more emphasis on proper usage and hygiene improvements. The chief and subcounty health inspector also encouraged the residents to take all the lessons seriously and appreciated the time and lessons kibo wash team which are so developmental and helpful to the community. As the government doesn’t have money to go out to teach community they greatly welcome the program to the whole subcounty. We then asked the chief and subcounty health assistant to handover the shovels and pick axes to the community residents as donated from kibo to kickstart the sanitation program. The community residents are so happy for the lessons and everything kibo has started in their community. They promised to work hard and complete all the facilities. 

Next Visit

2021-11-29 - Purpose: To check on the progress of sanitation improvements from the time we triggered to now.

Program Success

Successful sanitation and hygiene triggering session

Program Critical Needs

Program Ownership

Other Program Observations

Program Expected Of Village

Program Staff Preparations Next Visit

 

Report Photos

A picture for the map of the village

Keneth teaching the residents about the fiscal matter cycle as well as demonstrating fiscal matter cycle

Community members waiting to lessen from the wash program

So many men attended the triggering session

The well where a section of this village collects water from since there borehole is broken and needs repairs.

Enock introduces the sanitation program to the community members, encouraging all residents to participate and cooperate during this time

The subcounty chief and health assistant handing the shovels and pick axes on the committee members selected to do the work.