MENTOR ORPHANS AFRICA
(MOA)
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Covid 19 has found us in a situation where we need to promote cleanliness through washing of our hands, wearing of face masks, sanitizers and social distance which are still limited.
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The organization has managed to provide clean water for hand wash although the resources are still limited.
WITH LOVE TO MAKE A CHANGE, WE CAN DO ANYTHING TO PROVIDE A LIFE TO THESE STRIVING CHILDREN.
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About 30 million Ugandans still do not have latrines, and practice open defecation i.e. the use of ponds, rivers, bushes and farms as a defecating site is widely observed. Household access to off-site sanitation system is only 1.65% (only urban cities have off-site waste water system). Diseases caused by poor sanitation are highly increasing in our community
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Executive summary
Sanitation refers to: The safe management of human excreta and grey water, the principles and practices relating to the collection, removal, or disposal of human excreta, refuse and waste water.
The provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human excreta, maintenance of hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection and wastewater disposal. It includes hardware (facilities) and software (rules, regulations, hygiene). Sanitation facility refers to infrastructure dedicated for the disposal, conveyance or treatment or human Sanitation system Refers to the combination of technologies for safe collection, transport, treatment or disposal of human waste. It represents a configuration of different technologies.
“The impacts of water supply and sanitation do not stop at the tap. The provision of these services strikes at the very core of the Bank’s mission – to reduce poverty.
The Water and Sanitation Program is one of the longest running Global Programs and Partnerships administered by the World Bank .The objective of the Program is to support governments scale up improved water supply and sanitation services and hygiene programs for poor people. The Program achieves this by providing technical assistance, capacity building, and leveraging knowledge.
The world is on track to meeting the water Millennium Development Goal (MDG) with 87% coverage globally.2 Delving into this statistic, however, shows there are significant disparities in access and quality by region, country, and spatial settings such as informal settlements, rural areas and small towns. Sanitation presents a much more dire challenge with 2.6 billion people still without access to adequate sanitation Uganda lags behind on both targets, with access measured at 60% for water supply and 31% for safe sanitation.3 The disparity between rural and urban areas is stark, with only 45% of the country’s population living in rural areas using improve sanitation facilities, compared with 76% of the urban population.
Increasing financing alone will not be enough to bridge these gaps. Many communities in Uganda do not have 24-hour water supply and many peri-urban and informal settlement populations still rely on expensive vendors or unsafe wells for drinking water .
SANITATION PROJECT OVERVIEW:
Objectives
Promote frequent and proper hand hygiene as one of the most important measures that can be used to prevent infection with the COVID-19 virus. MOA will enable more frequent and regular hand hygiene by improving facilities and using proven behavior change techniques.
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Give guidance on the safe management of drinking water and sanitation services applies to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Promoting and applying of good hygiene practices. Such efforts will prevent other infectious diseases, which cause millions of deaths each year.
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Carry out communications campaign to ensure that people the community know about the importance of hand washing and physical distancing. Share information about what is currently known about COVID-19.
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Offering of protective equipments to the community such as face masks, sanitizers.
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Provision of food items to the vulnerable within our organization and the community around.
Core values
Even under these circumstances, we work from the same core values:
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Leave no one behind. Social inclusion is one of our key values. Every person should be able to understand and have access to the information provided.
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The do-no-harm principle. To avoid exposing people to additional risks through our actions.
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Women-centered approach. In general, women and girls face greater challenges in achieving a healthy life than men and boys. Also, in this crisis, women are disproportionally affected.
In general, women and girls face greater challenges in achieving a healthy life than men and boys. Our mission, a healthy life for all cannot be achieved when millions of women and girls around the world are denied this right. In our work, we focus on improving the health of the entire community at large more specially the women and girls. We ensure that they have the freedom and ability to make informed choices and have the means to pursue their right to a healthy life as far as Covid 19 is concerned
With that, we aim to contribute to a positive and sustainable change in the lives of the community with in this pandemic and after. We strive for a world in which all women and girls are socially and economically empowered to pursue their right to a healthy life, free from discrimination, coercion and violence.
Keys to Success
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Frequent and correct hand hygiene is one of the most important measures to prevent infection with the COVID-19 virus. WASH practitioners should work to enable more frequent and regular hand hygiene by improving access to hand hygiene facilities and using multi-modal approaches (refer to Hand hygiene practices) to support good hand hygiene behavior. Performing hand hygiene at the right time, using the right technique
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Keeping water supplies safe Several measures can improve water safety, starting with protecting the source water; treating water at the point of distribution, collection or consumption; and ensuring that treated water is safely stored at home in regularly cleaned and covered containers. Such measures can be effectively planned, implemented and monitored using water safety plans.17 Conventional, centralized water treatment methods that utilize filtration and disinfection should inactivate the COVID-19 virus
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Safe water supply, sanitation and hygiene services and medical waste management in health care facilities are essential to deliver quality health services, protect patients, health workers and staff, and to prevent further transmission. During an infectious disease outbreak, services should meet minimum quality standards and be separated for infected vs. non-infected patients. Support is required to ensure that services are not disrupted and products such as soap and alcohol-based hand rubs are available.
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Communication and preparedness related to hand washing behavior change and promotion, food hygiene and safe water practices. Materials for hand washing and hygiene may include the provision of fixed and portable hand washing facilities, purchasing of soap and alcohol-based hand rubs, provision of water supplies for hand washing and point of use water treatment. Schools, workplaces, markets, transport stations and other areas where people gather all require easy access to water and soap for hand washing. Proven behavior change techniques can help increase the frequency and improve the practice of critical hygiene behaviors. Resources such as the Global Hand washing Partnership can be tapped to mobilize private, public and civil society actors to support the development of messaging and materials to respond to COVID-19 outbreaks in various countries.