Environmental Sanitation
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative methodology for mobilizing communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (Open Defecation Free). This activity came to being as a result of the sensitization program conducted in the community where it was brought to notice that most disease in the community was due to dirty environment. Some of the prevalent diseases in the community were cholera, diarrhea, and Malaria.
In view of this, CAAIDS/LIHOC in collaboration with Rural-Urban Water Environmental Sanitation Agency (RUWESA), paid an advocacy visit to the council of chiefs in 4 selected communities. This advocacy visit was targeted at making the chiefs and royal councils to see the havoc dirty environment, open defecation and dirty water does to members of a community. It was this advocacy visit that gave birth to a sensitization program done at the community.
This sensitization was done for four days where in more than 400 persons were present. Members of the community were made to understand through mapping, transect walk and the F-diagram that they have been eating fasces all these while due to lack of toilet, resulting in open defecation.
In conclusion, they made up their mind that they want to put an end to OD and to that effect, a committee called water and sanitation committee (WASHCOM) was formed. The good news is that as the time of this report, (125) new toilets have been dug. .
