Project Goals
Description of the Project Goals
The goal of this project is to enable the vulnerable poor people in remote villages to have access to safe drinking water, understand the importance of safe drinking water in disease prevention and other basic preventive health measures through public health education and possibly reduce the death rate from common preventable diseases of diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera and other water borne diseases.
In order to achieve this goal, Marita Foundation is setting up water purification systems in schools, health centres and carrying out public health education in schools and communities. Marita foundation is also empowering rural women to sustainably improve their economic wellbeing through self-sustaining economic projects to the organised community groups
Method of Implementation
After identifying the needs of the community, we partnered with Bulambuli district local government which has helped to sensitise the communities about our project and the intended project outcomes. Local governments help us to identify the communities that are most in need
Expected Outcome
- By promoting the use of safe drinking water, proper hygiene and sanitation practices, increasing household incomes, the impoverished communities will be able to sustain improved livelihoods
Specific Objectives
- Public health education for disease prevention
- Providing clean and safe water to Uganda rural communities and educating primary pupils the importance of drinking safe water
- Help communities set up income generating activities through community organized groups
Accomplishments
- We have given so far 100 goats to 15 women groups in Bulambuli district each group comprising of minimum 10 women
- We have done so far 30 community outreach programs educating communities on sanitation, hygiene and how to boil and keep safe drinking water, wash hands with soap after visiting latrine and educating women on the importance of wash stands where they keep their house hold utensils clean
- We have built a public latrine in Nabongo trading centre of Bulambuli district to promote hygiene
- We have provided sanitary towels to Muyembe primary school girls so that we can keep them in school
- We have starting a goat breeding project where we started with 20 goats so that we are able to sustainably continue giving out goats to women groups. The goal is to give each woman in Bulambuli district a goat and eventually each woman builds a heard in a way of empowering them economically