Kawempe residents join hands to promote sanitation
Oct 03, 2007
KAWEMPE division has launched a door-to-door sanitation campaign which involves collecting garbage and sensitising residents on waste management.
By Samuel Balagadde
KAWEMPE division has launched a door-to-door sanitation campaign which involves collecting garbage and sensitising residents on waste management.
While launching the campaign in Kifumbira-Kamwokya recently, Nasser Takuba, the division chairman, said they had designed a more comprehensive approach to promote sanitation through waste management.
“Kawempe division has for so long been known for having poor sanitation due to poor drainage and limited distribution of pit latrines. Under the current approach, we have involved all locals to ensure that they implement what has been agreed upon,†he said.
Takuba added that after notifying residents and business people in Kawempe about the campaign, they will renovate and paint buildings, streamline parking for boda boda cyclists and motor vehicles and install street lights.
“We have gone an extra mile from where we were. Dumping garbage in drainage systems, a common practice in the area, is has reduced drastically. We have introduced a ‘self loading mechanism’ where locals can collect garbage from their homes and take it to the garbage collecting trucks,†he explained.
Takuba said, in a bid to combat waste, the division would contract experts in waste management to equip locals with skills on how to recycle waste materials, especially the hard plastics and polythene into valuable products that would be sold.
“You should not wait for Bonna bagaggawale funds to eradicate poverty.
“You can make money by utilising the technology since there is waste in abundance,†Sebuliba Mutumba, the Kawempe South Member of Parliament, added.
KAWEMPE division has launched a door-to-door sanitation campaign which involves collecting garbage and sensitising residents on waste management.
While launching the campaign in Kifumbira-Kamwokya recently, Nasser Takuba, the division chairman, said they had designed a more comprehensive approach to promote sanitation through waste management.
“Kawempe division has for so long been known for having poor sanitation due to poor drainage and limited distribution of pit latrines. Under the current approach, we have involved all locals to ensure that they implement what has been agreed upon,†he said.
Takuba added that after notifying residents and business people in Kawempe about the campaign, they will renovate and paint buildings, streamline parking for boda boda cyclists and motor vehicles and install street lights.
“We have gone an extra mile from where we were. Dumping garbage in drainage systems, a common practice in the area, is has reduced drastically. We have introduced a ‘self loading mechanism’ where locals can collect garbage from their homes and take it to the garbage collecting trucks,†he explained.
Takuba said, in a bid to combat waste, the division would contract experts in waste management to equip locals with skills on how to recycle waste materials, especially the hard plastics and polythene into valuable products that would be sold.
“You should not wait for Bonna bagaggawale funds to eradicate poverty.
“You can make money by utilising the technology since there is waste in abundance,†Sebuliba Mutumba, the Kawempe South Member of Parliament, added.