Planning meetings with the village environmental committees in Busia

 

 

YOUTH ENVIRONMENT SERVICE

Meeting updates at (YES)

23.09.2011

The Secretariat YES-Busia                                                                                                                                     Garbage waste collectors of BMC

YES meets committee members in Solo “ B”

There was a meeting held by YES with the Village Health Team (V.H.T) at the Mawero market. The meeting begun at 9:0 am and 20 members were in attendance. It was presided over by the Public Health Inspector (P.H.I), Mr. Mulimba James, Mr. Jacob the Principle Investigator and a researcher, from Austria, the YES staff, and the Councillor LC1 of Solo B village. The chairlady of the team in her speech threw a vote of thanks to the YES staff for having partnered with Mr. Jacob who introduced such a great Project that has brought tremendous changes in terms of environmental health and sanitation. 

 

She continued and appealed to members of the team to continue working together to maintain the situation. The chairman of the team also aired out that the YES staff has been so transparent in that it kept them informed of any activity and it provided various tools to them for use, it (YES staff) once also organised an exchange visit where they shared a lot of issues. The village councillor also addressed members and in his speech he urged the PHI to integrate the YES programs with his office programs. The PHI however in his presentation announced that 

 members should learn to demand for services, for example the issue of public toilets which had been raised. He went ahead and promised that whenever there is an activity at the Municipal council, YES as a team shall be involved, he encouraged members to be more creative, and in his conclusion appreciated YES for the great work.  Nevertheless, Jacob addressed and he emphasised members to prepare their work such that they present it on the day of the workshop conference scheduled on 4^th $ 6^th Oct this year.

 In the open discussion, members of the team put forward the most significant achievements of the project:

“Through community sensitization, several households have constructed latrines, are collecting their household waste in sacks (storage facility) instead of throwing them wherever, some have dug soak pits...”, as mentioned by one member of the team.

 Many recognised that there are no longer cholera outbreak reports which used to be rampant before.

Another one appreciated the uniforms they were provided that they helped them a lot whereby the word “Ecological Police” written on it gained them respect and guininely sold them to the entire public, the tools eased their work, and that they made friendship with the community and many are eager to join them.

 The program Coordinator YES Mr, Ongatai Amosiah in his remarks called upon the Team to remain committed because it determines the continuity of the project even when Jacob was to withdraw. Jacob has been the sponsor of the project.

Reported by Babirye Harriet documentation officer-reporting on environmental health-YES