By Caroline Fernandes | Director of Partnerships
November was an eventful month for Mpoma! Earlier this month the Mpoma team went on another outreach to the villages Waluga and Katogoo. The goal of these trips was to share the next steps in our WASH program for the year. Some major focuses are community empowerment plus the importance of latrine covers and permanent handwashing stations. These current goals address several points of imporvement that we discovered through our survey research over the past two summers.
The Mpoma team also recently shared the formal research paper this year's GROW team wrote with Nama sub-county government officials (the Chair-person and Community Development Officer). They are very excited about our findings!
Mpoma also visited Kyampisi, a prospective WASH village, to do a massive community mobilization. This step is a vital part of the WASH project as it brings all village members on board before building a new water source. Additionally, doing so educates the community on the various responsibilites required to properly maintain the borehole.
Lastly, our new sanitary pad project at Johnson Nkosi Primary school is doing well! The permanent structure built to wash and dry reusable pads is being used by the girls and there have been no problems so far.
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