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management committee, with a water sub-committee herself and her children. She even manages to get
which collects fees from each household to pay for some much-needed rest. Now I have more time to
maintenance and repairs to the system. relax and think, she says. And the water point is
The management committee is overseeing the close, so I can even send the children by themselves
process of working towards healthy village status, to collect water.
and Tearfund has trained a number of community
motivators in hygiene awareness. They now visit What are the challenges?
each household to check that good hygiene behaviour The challenge for Lulinda now is to maintain the
is being practised, including keeping latrines clean, changes that have taken place in the village, and in
installing tippy-taps to encourage hand-washing as particular the functioning of the new water system,
people leave the toilet, and disposing of rubbish in which has made such a difference to villagers lives
designated pits. and which has been handed over to the community
by Tearfund.
To keep their healthy village status and maintain
the health benefits the community has already seen,
residents must also continue to practise improved
hygiene and sanitation behaviours, including
using latrines, hand-washing with soap or ash, and
disposing of rubbish safely.
Stories and photos collected by Jane Beesley, freelance humanitarian communications specialist, and edited by Emma Feeny (Oxfam).
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