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| Non-decomposing garbage that includes plastic bottles at the collection point where sorting takes place |
<Progress
of each activity>
Activity
1.2
Thirty (30) minutes’
environmental education talks conducted for 10 months
In respect to the
above activity, 2 radio talk shows were conducted by the Project Officer on
16/09/2022 and 07/10/2022 which ran for 30 minutes at Luna FM Kibalinga. These
were intended to create awareness about the use of the garbage containers,
sorting of garbage and recycling. It was also intended to inform the community
about respecting the monitoring team and to work hand in hand to keep the
community clean.
Pictorial
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 and safe disposal.
These were bought and stationed as planned in
the 5 different places. Two containers were stationed at each point to enable
proper garbage sorting. Garbage is sorted accordingly as the ones that
decompose are separated from the ones that do not decompose like plastic
bottles.
Pictorial
Next plan
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Decomposable garbage is being taken to gardens by
interested farmers.
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SORAK plans to make manure from decomposable garbage but
this may not be feasible because farmers take this garbage continuously.
<Positive
influences>
·
Community
members appreciated the work done by the monitoring committee to keep the
environment clean and promised to work hand in hand with them.
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Farmers in the
community welcomed the idea of garbage sorting whereby they are willing to
engage in the process and use the decomposed garbage in their gardens as manure.
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Listeners
appreciated the radio talk shows that aim at promoting hygiene and sanitation
in the community. This was evidenced by the 10 calls and messages they made
during conducting of the talk shows.
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Most community
members have adopted to proper use of the garbage containers. They sort garbage
by disposing the ones that decompose in one container and the ones that do not
in another container which has enabled proper garbage sorting.
·
Community
members appreciated the spot messages that are aired 5 times as a day as they
keep on reminding them about what to do to keep their community clean.
<Challenges faced during conducting of activities
>
·
Too much expectations from the community
monitoring group. They requested for daily facilitation with money for lunch, airtime
to help them during monitoring of the activity but the Director advised them to
make use of the available resources and also focus on improving the cleanliness
of the community
· Due to
Ebola pandemic, a lockdown was imposed on Mubende on the 16/10/2022 which made
a number of activities to be put on hold till the situation improves hence
affecting the programs that were met to take place during that period.
<Lessons
Learnt>
· It was learnt that the monitoring committee, community members and local leaders appreciated the project and requested SORAK to keep up the spirit of bringing such wonderful projects that improve the wellbeing of the community.
· Simple tasks like garbage sorting are not easily appreciated by local communities
unless motivated by the
prospect of selling garbage or making use of it. This was learnt after
realizing that community members were encouraged to sort garbage because they
knew that they would both sell plastics and take decomposable garbage to their
gardens. Community members now actively sort garbage and take plastics for sell.
SORAK is not involved in the selling of these because leaders resolved that the
community would take it up on themselves to sort and sell.
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