Healthy and Safe Kitchens - Ituba Namalowe - Namutumba
Visit by Suzan Winnie on 2019-11-27
- Report ID
- 7622
- Created by
- Suzan Winnie
- Created date
- 2019-11-28 09:04:38 UTC
- Modified by
- Suzan Winnie
- Modified date
- 2019-11-28 11:58:18 UTC
- Trip Time
- 10:07-17:28 (7 h 21 m)
- Village Time
- 12:09-15:20 (3 h 11 m)
- Travel Time
- 4 h 10 m
Kitchens all groups
- Lesson Taught
- assignment check
- How Many Men Attended
- 6
- How Many Women Attended
- 26
- Staff Attendees
- Tape Bwana,Suzan Keddi
- Government Attendess
- LC1
- Visitor Attendees
- None
- Total Attendance
- 32
- Program
- Healthy and Safe Kitchens
- Notes
- Tape and Suzan went to Ituba Namalowe with the purpose of monitoring the stove usage and the maintenance of the other program facilities such as the bathrooms, kitchens,latrines,rubbish pits and dish racks.
When they reached the village, they went to the secretary’s home and found members already gathered with some of their committee group leaders outside the house. The members warmly welcomed Tape and Suzan and after exchanging greetings, they briefly sat down and the chairperson made some updates about the ongoing program activities such as rebuilding the destroyed facilities and smearing of the buildings as well as building stoves at their neighboring villages.
The members had also opened up a savings account whereby they would save some money whenever they built fuel efficient stoves for the members at their neighboring villages. About 48 members were now cooking on their new stoves without any complains while others needed to rebuild their stoves so that they would cook effectively since they had placed them at the wrong wind directions.
Later after, Kibo staff and the members got up and began moving around the village visiting home to home while monitoring monitoring different facilities. According to observations, some members had roofed their kitchens with new grass,built strong dish racks and smeared their stoves and other buildings which was so impressive to see.
A few group members had also not built kitchens and were seen still cooking on the three stones open flames although they had promised to build them with time.
Kibo staff thanked all the members for the good work done and encouraged them to continue maintaining their facilities for a healthy living, and the meeting came to an end.
- Next Visit
- 2019-12-11 - Purpose: To follow up on the repair of the program facilities.
- Program Success
- Some facilities such as the kitchen roofs,shower areas and dish racks which were destroyed by the rains have been repaired and quite a number of group members are now cooking on their stoves.
- Program Critical Needs
- Emphasize on smearing all the buildings and equal participation of men and women in the program activities.
- Program Ownership
- The group members have unity and have also formed a savings account whenever they scale out to the neighboring villages
- Other Program Observations
- Some of the sanitation and hygiene facilities are well maintained such as the hand washing facilities, dish racks,bathrooms and latrines.
- Program Expected Of Village
- To continue repairing their spoilt facilities and smear all their buildings
- Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
- To plan for the next village visit