By Brendan Hanlon | Just a Drop
Just a Drop has worked to provide Health Centres at Namayumba, Wakiso and Buwambo with hand washing facilities and to accelerate the soap making programmes that we had already started. Further, we wanted to disseminate important information on how to mitigate the disease, through safe community outreach.
We are pleased that we have been able to achieve at least part of this. All the Health Centres, which serve up to 50,000 people each now have the hand washing facilities at access points and across key points, so that everyone entering and whilst there can wash their hands regularly.
We have also provided additional megaphones which play recorded hygiene and C-19 related messages on a loop by the main gates as people wash their hands.
Soap production has been boosted and there is now a constant supply – as shops were closed, we assisted the Health Centres to buy the materials to make the soap and provided funding for a person to make it. People visiting the centre are able to buy the excess soap made, which is affordable and good quality soap, providing a small income stream to help each health centre buy other vital equipment and ensure more people have a supply of soap for their households.
Further, we supplied community outreach services into the surrounding rural villages in Wakiso District, to spread good hygiene and social distancing messaging, and information about coronavirus.
We also placed hand washing facilities in local villages and by shops. These local markets became essential to keep livelihoods going but were threatened with closure, vendors being expected to sleep at their places of work or face arrest. So by setting up handwashing facilities and supplying soap we were able to keep food markets open and ensure small businesses could continue and people could access food without fear of getting ill.
What we have done is only half of the story, there are still many more places which need better hygiene, soap and hygiene messages. Your support can help us achieve this, thank you.
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