My name is Geoffrey Gidaga, I am a VHT for my village of Jupumvura, in my village, and the state of sanitation was very appalling in most homes. People were defecating outside, no rubbish pits, bathing shelter and drying rack for the basic hygiene practices in homes.
Our People suffered most times from diseases like, diarrhea, dysentery, bilharzia, typhoid among others due to the living in a contaminated environment. When it rains the situation gets worse. The entire village smells full of human fecal since they were not properly disposed of and all this fasces is washed into the nearby water sources and the Nile River where people go and fetch for drinking and other domestic use.

With the state of sanitation in our village, a team of health workers from feat Africa through Pakwach district came to our village and trained us on living with a healthy sanitation and hygiene around our homes.

Since the sensitization and training on clean homes that we got from feat Africa on the dangers of open defecation, our village has seen a countless change in the side of hygiene in homes. The rate of infections in the village has reduced. The cases of typhoid, diarrhea, dysentery, bilharzia among other diseases has greatly reduced now.

“we no longer spend allot of money on medication like before because people living the community have adopted the idea of putting in place pit latrines, rubbish pits, bathing shelter, drying rack for utensils and have a safe place to keep the animals at home. Says Gidaga.”

We thank feat Africa and Pakwach district local government for the support and educating us in our village on keeping our sanitation clean. May God bless you in the works you do in the communities.