Uganda

Waste Sanitation & Hygiene

Health Goes Global is proud to continue our work with Surge for Water. Through this collaboration, we aim to improve hygiene and sanitation at a primary school through construction of a latrine.

These efforts will impact people in Kaberamaido & Kalaki Districts which has been referred to as the ‘Forgotten District’ of Northern Uganda. These communities were the last frontier for Uganda’s most recent civil wars, which resulted in extreme poverty and lack of safe water access. As a result, these vulnerable communities suffer from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related illnesses.

Latrine Construction:

We are still in the selection process, working closely with our partners on the ground, to determine the school where we will begin construction. There is much need given that during school breaks, there are long lines for overused toilets. Students unavoidably end up using the nearby bushes or corridors around the school grounds. 

The bathrooms they have now are are falling apart with foundation cracking. Additionally, they are missing doors and have no sink or near by location to wash one’s hands. The latrines we are constructing will have 5 stalls and a washroom. There will be an incinerator for contaminated hygiene products and the roof will collect rain water to supply the sinks with water. This project will drastically decrease the risk of waterborne contamination and illness within the school and community!

Below are photos from our 2023 latrine construction project.

WASH Training - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

The critical component to the sustainability of this mission is sanitation and hygiene education. The WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) training teaches students about the water cycle, how germs spread, waterborne illnesses, and critical sanitation/hygiene practices.

post construction survelance

Our partners, Surge, aims to break the cycle of broken wells and put ownership and maintenance of wells back into the community’s hands and we couldn’t be more excited to support this.  Elected Water User Committees are trained on ensuring proper sanitation and hygiene practices at the water point and decide on a community-wide fee for using the borehole that is saved and used for future maintenance. This hands-on training program includes governance, environmental health, sustainability, operation and maintenance, financial management, and work plan implementation. The Monitoring & Evaluation Officers help ensure the long-term sustainability of the wells we help drill and rehabilitate.