Since February 2011,the village environment committees have been conducting mobilisation,education and monthly supportive site visits to households and landlords without proper household waste storage facility and landlords without latrines.
But the meeting for today was meant to address the few identified needs of this village by the environment committees,with last warning for landlords to improve on the waste and sanitation gaps and fullfilment of proper hygienic conditions for tenants,the calls were made by tenants,including the presence of medical waste in the waste skip.They all agreed that comunity managed solid waste system, is improving and there is no need to fall back again after all this achievements.
They requested the landlord and the muncipal council to open up drainage route for floods and rain water in the area.
The Public Health Inspector Mr James Mulimba apologised to the community for ineffecient waste collection and delay,he promised to address the comunity recomandations.
This blog was created through the UGoS project on waste management in Busia (Eastern Uganda). Project partners from non-governmental, governmental, and research organisations aim to generate the knowledge required for sound solid waste management. The blog reports on environmental, sanitation, and health issues from Eastern Uganda in general, and the UGoS project progress and achievements in particular.
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