WASH United Hand washing with soap campaign in Busia

Youth Environment Service has an on-going program of promoting hand washing in schools within the Municipal Council. The program is being supported by Bill and Melinda Gates through Uganda Water and Sanitation Network-(UWAS-NET). In partnership with the school administrations, over 12 schools have been reached, including Arubaine Moslems', Victory, Winn and Joan, Busia Border, Parents' Pride, Mawero East, Marachi, Busia Basic, Busia Intergrated, Madibira, Fairway, Nagulu Islamic, Busia Frontier, Greens primary schools.  The project staff and volunteers were able to raech about 200 school children per school. The campaign involved activities such as, Scoring into the World Toilet cup ('Kicking the poo in the loo'), Hand washing challenge, Tippe tap construction competitions. The major aim of these activities is to sensitize children on the need to wash their hands with soap after visiting the latrine and before eating food including the proper procedure, secondly, to promote proper use of a latrine to reduce on open defecation which is on increase.