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| Officer in charge Kibalinga police station talking about the project and Ebola |
<Progress of each activity>
Activity 1.2 Thirty (30) minutes’
environmental education talks conducted for 10 months
In respect to the above activity, 6 radio talk shows were conducted by the Project Officer on 14 November 2022 and 04, 06, 08, 10, and 12 December 2022 which ran for 30 minutes at Luna FM Kibalinga.
These were intended to create more awareness about the use of the proper garbage disposal and sorting of garbage. It was also intended to sensitize the community about Ebola pandemic as poor hygiene also increases the disease. In addition, these were intended to conclude the project as well as emphasizing to the listeners the need and importance of keeping community clean.
The community was also
thanked for keeping and maintaining a clean environment in Lusalira trading
Centre. Two persons (1 female and 1 male) called in during the talk show and
thanked SORAK and GBN for the project and for having promoted a clean environment
in Lusalira trading Centre.
Activity 1.3 An environmental education and awareness
raising jingle/spot message aired 5 times a day
Airing of spot messages on Luna Fm radio in Kibalinga to create awareness about proper garbage management in the community thus improving sanitation and hygiene. These messages are aired 5 times a day to ensure that people acquire basic information about garbage.
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Fellow Ugandans, did you know that poor garbage disposal negatively affects both an individual and the entire community in households and in the community. Poor garbage disposal can cause dangerous diseases like Cholera and Diarrhea that are harmful to our lives. Burning of garbage anyhow can lead to environmental degradation. Therefore, SORAK has come out to provide support by engaging in sensitization of community members about proper garbage management, through providing containers where garbage is disposed, a vehicle collects garbage to the collection points where sorting and recycling of garbage aimed to keep the environment clean is conducted from. Therefore, it is advised that we work together in this call to improve sanitation and hygiene in Lusalira community. This message is brought to you by SORAK
together with Global Bridge Network-Japan |
Activity 2.1
Ten (10) garbage containers/skips procured and stationed at 5 different places
to encourage and support garbage sorting, recycling and safe disposal.
Garbage is sorted
accordingly as the ones that decompose like food peelings are separated from
the ones that do not decompose like plastic bottles. Decomposed garbage is
taken by currently 3 farmers and used in their gardens as fertilizers which has
greatly improved the quality of crops and plants.
Activity 3.1 A community based environmental protection monitoring group
established and it is active in monitoring and reporting safe garbage disposal
and sorting in Lusalira trading Centre.
This project has thanked for having established
an environmental protection and monitoring group of 12 members. It is composed
of; local women and men involved in petty trade, village leaders and subcounty
leaders. This group was started way back in March-April 2022 in the earlier
months of the project. It has been maintained and continues to operate as
earlier planned. This group will maintain the project activities of cleaning
Lusalira trading Centre even after December 2022 when the project ends. Every
Thursday of a week has been earmarked as community cleaning/ monitoring day.
This and the follow-up is being done by the local village local government
while SORAK participates to provide a backstopping role.
Activity
3.1.2 Engagement meeting with selected
monitoring committee and local leaders sharing project progress
A meeting with local leaders that included Police officers, Subcounty Chief, LC1 Chairman, SORAK team and the monitoring committee among others was conducted at Kibalinga Police Station on the 21/11/2022. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the progress of the project and how it will be sustained to keep the community clean. Officer in charge of Kibalinga Police Station and the sub county Chief encouraged the monitoring committee to continue with the good work and also threw more light about the issue of Ebola in the community. Emphasized that a clean environment can help to reduce and prevent the disease hence encouraged proper garbage disposal.
Each of the above persons has a role
contributing to sustainability of the activities. The Subcounty chief
supervises, the police handle those faulting on the by-laws, while the local
council leaders (LC chairman and team) lead the team on ground. He also leads
the weekly cleaning and enforcement days-Thursdays.
Engagement of community and subcounty leaders
15th December 2022
SORAK staff
continued to engage and conducted a final evaluation and engagement meeting
with the subcounty leaders as well as representatives from the community based
environmental protection and promotion group of Lusalira trading Centre.
This meeting discussed what has been achieved
including;
· Maintained
cleanliness-this has been due to continued awareness created by the talk shows
· Care of
the garbage containers and resolved that these should be under the charge of
Local council one leaders.
· Proper
sorting of garbage- where it was agreed that it was good for the farmers to
take the decomposing ones while the waste dealers would continue collecting
plastics on their own and take them for sale. Farmers freely come to collection
sites and take away decomposable garbage with their own means. The recyclable
materials are also taken away by individuals to take the advantage of finding
them sorted. This system was preferred because it makes garbage management easy
since collectors who take and sale are self-motivated. The committee role ends
at ensuring a clean environment and that all garbage is taken out of the
Trading Centre.
The meeting also discussed challenges
including;
· The generation of too much waste that now needs bigger garbage skips (containers) than the containers supplied by this project. In future the subcounty would introduce bigger skips and thanks to SORAK and GBN for having introduced the idea of sorting and collection of garbage in containers.
Activity 3.2 Safe garbage disposal by-laws are
made and enforced.
All the way from inception activities,
this project engaged leaders and residents to make safe garbage disposal
by-laws. As a result, the following were made and are being enforced.
1. A
penalty of 50,000# will be opposed to those caught mishandling garbage
2. Children
above 2 years will be left home. Mothers in the markets were advised by their
fellow vendors that children of the mentioned age should be left at home since
they congest the market area and dispose waste anyhow
3. Anyone
caught mishandling containers will be obliged to buy two containers and failure
to do so will call for arrest of the victim
4. Anyone
caught with a hip of garbage at his/her place will also be punished to ensure
they dispose garbage in the containers that will be provided
Positive influences
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Local leaders
thanked SORAK for the wonderful project during the engagement meeting that the
hygiene has greatly changed in the area and requested for more of such projects
in their community that improve the community wellbeing
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Listeners
appreciated the radio talk shows that aim at promoting hygiene and sanitation
in the community. They also appreciated the information provided about Ebola
and thanked SORAK for such wonderful information
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Farmers were so
grateful as the decomposed garbage helped them in improving soil fertility
which provides them with high quality crops and plants. By December 3 banana
farmers have been actively involved in collecting and taking sorted
decomposable garbage to their gardens
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Community
members happily engaged in garbage sorting because they sell the non-decomposed
garbage like plastics. These include mostly youth (6) who were formerly
unemployed. They appreciated SORAK for allowing them sell them hence rise some
income which help them sustain some of their needs. It is estimated that
individual plastic waste dealers earn an average of 30$ per month.
Challenges faced during the activity
· Increased
generation of plastic waste and sometimes community members send children to
the garbage containers who end up mixing both decomposable and
non-decomposable. The continued monitoring and awareness via spot messages have
helped a lot in addressing this challenge. SORAK plans to continue having spot
messages and radio talk shows due to the fact that SORAK wishes to sustain her
name and the set clean environment standards.
· Restriction
of movement due to Ebola virus disease outbreak and associated lockdown for 63
days covering the entire district. This limited the monitoring group movements
especially checking on the community members whether they were dumping trash
where it was supposed to be dumped -in containers. There was thus some
littering of trash. This has been however solved after the lifting of the lock
down. Also talk shows encouraged people to dump waste in time before the curfew
time.
Lessons learnt
· It was
learnt that the project greatly benefited the community as its aim and
objectives was achieved.
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