Water Sanitation and Hygiene - Butabira
Visit by Alex Walyomu on 2020-07-03
- Report ID
- 9118
- Created by
- Alex Walyomu
- Created date
- 2020-07-07 10:21:25 UTC
- Modified by
- Alex Walyomu
- Modified date
- 2020-07-07 11:06:29 UTC
- Trip Time
- 10:06-17:19 (7 h 13 m)
- Village Time
- 12:24-14:50 (2 h 26 m)
- Travel Time
- 4 h 47 m
Large group meetings
- Men in Attendance
- 4
- Women in Attendance
- 3
- Staff Attendees
- Walyomu Alex
- Government Attendees
- LC1,VHT
- Vistior Attendees
- Total Attendance
- 7
- Program
- Water Sanitation and Hygiene
- Lesson Taught
- standards,hand washing
- Notes
- Alex Walyomu while in Butabira together with the sanitation committee members gathered to learn how to construct a new hand washing station as another option besides tippy taps to promote hand washing during this crucial time of COVID-19. WASH program has decided to roll out hand washing program at this moment in all the villages they are active with a goal to target all people understand the value of hand washing not only after visiting the pit latrine but at all times and are very optimistic this will work very well. Hand washing helps to prevent the spread of germs as well as coronavirus. This is a crucial moment after the government requested kibo group to help sensitize the villages about Covid-19 and what the villages can do to prevent the spread of the virus. Therefore WASH sought it as a good time to teach the people about hand washing to tackle the germs that cause diseases related to poor sanitation practices and the virus. Alex therefore had to train the sanitation committee members how to construct the stands and will be going home to home guiding people how to build them along side encouraging them to construct other sanitation facilities. Everyone that turned up to witness how to construct this type of stand liked it better than the tippy tap type because they believe this is easy to maintain and use. The sanitation committee together with WASH staff will continue to guide people how to build this type of stand in their homes during their weekly visits in the village as well as guiding them to construct the other facilities. WASH plans to distribute a small jerrycan in each home in the village to promote hand washing in the villages. The village chairman and the sanitation committee members appreciated Alex and kibo for the new idea and promised to help their village going to each home teaching them how to construct this hand washing stand after getting the idea from Alex. Alex plans to go back in this village next Wednesday to continue weekly follow ups together with the sanitation committee members.
- Next Visit
- 2020-07-08 - Purpose: Continue with weekly follow ups as well as teach hand washing in the village
- Program Success
- The sanitation committee members are working very hard reaching to all households to intensify and speed up the sanitation program in the village
- Program Critical Needs
- The borehole that need repair keeps breaking down very often but the community get together and fix it temporarily
- Program Ownership
- The sanitation committee and the village have embraced the sanitation program and busy working in their homes to upgrade the sanitation standards and very happy to learn the new hand washing facility construction
- Other Program Observations
- Program Expected Of Village
- The sanitation committee members to continue guiding the village on construction of standard facilities and promote hand washing facility construction
- Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
- Call the sanitation committee members and follow up on hand washing and construction of the new stands is being perceived by the village people
Report Photos
Alex W demonstrating to the sanitation committee and some other village people how to construct a new hand washing stand a new idea from WASH program to promote hand washing in the villages
The village kids also turned up to witness the process of constructing a new design of hand washing stand