Thursday 21 July 2011

Awareness raising through comunity education and sanitation counselling

Under the UGoS project,Youth environment service has managed to reach over 17,000,(seventeen thousand people in the four selected villages,through the village environmental committees known as the ecological police who are  voluntarily working day and evening to monitor illegal waste dumping,monitor households/buildings without toilets and all the sanitary facilities,the aim of the programe is to build comunity capacity to implement individual household to operationalise their roles and responsibilities more effectively and efficiently in asustainable manner.The goal of the programe is to improve on the living environment and human health.
The children and women have benefited alot from this preventive health programe,when you clearly look at the behaviour of children;the hand to mouth activities when crawling puts them at higher risk in unsanitary environment or places with open defication.
The project outcomes:
Incidence of water- borne diseases has been reduced and,related to the increased health status of the local comunities in the project area.
Increased human productivity and bussiness opportunites in places where waste was aproblem to conduct bussiness.



Village environmental health debate in progress in Arubaine "A"







YES volunteers conducting waste sampling exercise in Arubaine "A"

WASH school education awareness in progress,YES volunteers sensitise pupils in class,the children are good change agents.

Compost manure used for raising seedlings in school.


Waste properly managed under the skip area management programe by the environmental teams.

Crops in the demonstration site,Maize in Buteba Subcounty.

Village meeting in Solo A Village

Landlords contract masons to build toilet. in Mawero village our project area.