Uganda
Okile-Obulubulu School Transformation
Health Goes Global is proud to continue our work with Surge for Water. Through this collaboration, we aim to provide access to safe water and hygiene to Okile-Obulubulu Primary School in the Obiai Village of Kaberamaido, Uganda.
These efforts will impact around 1,200 people in Kaberamaido, 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.
Well Rehabilitation
There are 709 school students and, including community members, over 2,000 people will be impacted by this well rehabilitation!
Only 50% of Ugandans treat their water, which means many are not treating contaminated water and others are spending exorbitant amounts of time boiling water. Members of the Kaberamaido communities travel long distances to obtain clean drinking water as their local borehole has leaky pipes, which subsequently leads to pooling of contaminated water. The well rehabilitation will provide safe drinking water closer to the point of consumption for these community members and Ogolai School.
The deteriorated condition of the well before reconstruction.
The rehabilitated well in April of 2022!
Latrine Construction
To confound the unsafe drinking water conditions, the Okile-Obulubulu Primary School has dilapidated and unsanitary latrines (shown below). The bathrooms 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!
The cumbling floors of over-full latrines and construction for new latrines begins!
What the latrines will look like!
Classroom Water Filters
We will provide 7 classroom water filters. These ceramic portable water filters are locally made, eco-friendly, and will filter 99.9% of bacteria all while lasting for 3 years.
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.