Latrines for girls are, we believe, a priority. One quarter of a girl’s schooling is missed due to poor hygiene facilities at school. The first photo was taken of the latrines on an earlier visit to the school. The broken bamboo provides no privacy. The doors to the cubicles are broken or non-existent. The [...]
These photos are of the spring in Nakitanza village, Uganda. It is shared by 160 families and innumerable animals. Local leaders and community members cry out to us for support to protect rural springs, which reduces the high incidence of water related diseases like diarrhoea, worm infections and skin infections, according to the district [...]
Improved water and sanitation services are a key priority in the Uganda National Development Plan. The United Nations has also identified water and sanitation as a priority by designating it as one of their millennium development goals. Since 2001 responsibilities for hygiene and sanitation have been devolved between health, water and education departments which [...]
Water is the most precious commodity, essential for life and no one can live without it. We consume it, clean our food with it, cook our meals with it, wash our dishes with it, bathe and shower our bodies in it, wash our clothes in it, clean our homes with it, water our gardens [...]
Go without it and you will be dead in days; drink it dirty and full of harmful bacteria and it can be as deadly. Getting clean safe water is a UN world priority. RTC provide spring protection, giving clean water to remote rural communities that relied previously on water sources that are often contaminated [...]
