The Water and Sanitation Extension (WaSE) Project intends to integrate water supply and sanitation prospects within the informal settlements (slums) in and around Kampala, especially Katanga slum which was my case study. The most painful part about the people living in these slums is that almost half of them are children.
The project aims at increasing awareness about sanitation and its benefits to the inhabitants of the slums, encouraging the masses to embrace washing hands with clean water and soap to rule out chances of contracting diseases associated with poor sanitation like cholera, typhoid, and diarrhea. It entails helping households and communities to model simple hand washing mechanisms using cheap and readily available materials like jerry cans and ropes. It also aims at advocating for proper sanitation facilities especially improved pit latrines. This will help the inhabitants of the slums to become healthier and hence more productive at their work.
Within the time frame of August - December 2020, the ultimate yet measurable and realistic goal is to ensure that at least 85% of the households in Katanga slum, to start with, have access to simple hand-washing mechanisms and to build capacity to ensure that regular sanitary activities are carried out by the natives themselves to help boost their health state of living.