› Home › About Self Help › Contact Us › Current Projects Burkina Faso Ethiopia Eritrea Ghana Kenya Malawi Togo Uganda Zambia › Activities in Ireland › Activities in UK Events Calendar › Technologies › Case Studies › History 20 Year Highlights › How You Can Help What Your Money is Doing Regular Giving Fund-Raising Suggestions One Click Donation Corporate Seed Fund Farmers Grow Fund Volunteering Tax Relief on Donations › Fund-Raising Field Visits 2007 Kenya 2006 Eritrea 2005 -Kenya-Uganda-Malawi 2001-2004 From the Archives › Africa Alive Schools Programme Recent School News School Visits Curriculum Publications Student & Teacher Impressions Pictures Download Young Scientists Exhibition School Profiles (coming soon) › Exhibitions Africa Framed Value of Rubbish › Testimonials › Media Centre Press Releases Articles on Self Help Activities Related Topics › Reports / Studies › Useful Links › Glossary of Terms › Secure Page › Recruitment › Forum Pit Latrine Production (Uganda)           Case Studies › Pit Latrines (Uganda)        Less than 50 per cent of households in Self Help’s Kamuli project area have access to safe and cleaning drinking water. Yet, the provision of boreholes and protected springs is only a part of the solution being devised and implemented by Self Help and it’s partners, as they seek to end decades of disease and sickness resulting from contaminated water. A threefold increase in Uganda’s population, from nine to 26 million people in the past quarter-century has put huge pressure on natural resources. But Self Help believes that the provision of safe drinking water sources must be tackled hand in hand with the issue of sanitation, if it is to be successful in Kamuli. Over the past year the project has supported rural youth groups in each of the four sub-counties where it operates in developing income generating activities around the provision of pit-latrine slabs, which they have been fabricating from clay and cement for sale and distribution in their local communities. 24 young men in the district have received training in the manufacture, and by year end it is hoped that upwards of 500 latrine slabs – which are effectively covers for hand-dug toilets, will have been sold at a subsidised rate to families in the locality. Once the project has achieved 80 per cent coverage of pit latrines within the area it will look to construction bore-holes, wells, and protected springs within the project area. ‘The issue of providing drinking water is being looked at in conjunction with the need to provide training, and promote hygiene and sanitation in the programme area’, says Country Director Nelson Wajja Musukwe. ‘If we do one without the other the results will not be what they should be, and the problems will not be solved’. Related Topics          Ugandan Projects          ›› Uganda Home                   Case Studies          ›› More Info                                        Self Help Africa is a limited liability company. Company number: 105601 Charity No. 6663 (Ireland) The organisation has offices in Ireland at: Annefield House, Dublin Road, Portlaoise, Co. Laois Tel: 00 353 (0)57 8694034 - Fax: 00 353 (0)57 8694038, and in the United Kingdom at : Second Floor Suite, Westgate House, Dickens Court, Off Hills Lane, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1QU. Tel : 0044-(0)1743 277170        We welcome your comments: info@selfhelpafrica.com        Powered by: go2web