Comunity mobilisation,environment and sanitation education.

The staff of Youth environment service(YES),the office of public health,the local council "1" and the village environmental committees were in it again, for the second time conducting comunity awareness in the selected four villages of Busia muncicpal council.
The activities conducted include planning meeting with the village leaders on improving sanitation conditions of the comunity by helping to provide sufficient information throughout the villages with poor sanitation and environmental,and hygiene indicators.Creating a model of comunity participation in comunual voluntary clean up exercise in their locality and at household level adaptable to the local conditions,and assisting the comunity to establish asystem to manage solid waste properly.

This intervention was meant to address the following needs  of the selected villages:Improvement of the living conditions and the promotion of better conditions for income-generation opportunites,such as establishment of market stalls in spaces once used as dumping ground.fullfillment of proper hygienic conditions for visitors,family members and other recreational activities.
Achievements have been the following A comunity-managend solid waste management systems established.through identification of comunual collection centres,establsihment of vehicle route map,and  an agreed date for vheicle movement  and known by the comunity.
Over 2,700 people where reached with basic health,sanitation and hygiene messages.

The project volunteers after field work,always gather to have field reflection and share challenges for intervention the next day.Members respect each other and listen attentively to their team leader Mr Ongatai Amosiah who heads project coodination and management.(in darkcoat)

 The comunity members try understand why all the people are moving house to house conducting the sanitation mobilisation exercise.

 That place is very dirty, you can see and you people are here staying in a very dirty place,can we join hands and clean here now before we go to the next place(Ecological police seems to be saying so)

 The Environmental police are tired,time to go home,this exercise takes only 3 hours ,they are listening to the project officer field operation Mr Otim Simon before departure.

 Residents try to explain their concern as far as waste management is concerned to the Ecological police.

The development of toilet inventory is under way,many people close to 65 households had no toilets and 47 households,their toilets have indication nearing out of use within two months time or weeks.
Over 100 households have no acceptable standard sanitary facilities in the municpality.