Sanitation marketing is an approach used to improve sanitation through informal sector providers by building sustainable markets for sanitation goods and services. Through the Market Based Sanitation (MBS) project, Community Health Volunteer in groups called Community Units (CUs) are trained on business skills particularly focusing on sanitation business ownership. The trainees are taken through financial…
“Before constructing an improved toilet, we used to have snakes hide in the old toilet. This made it unsafe for my family to use especially for my children and grandchildren. “ “Before constructing an improved toilet, we used to have snakes hide in the old toilet. This made it unsafe for my family to use…
“I am a trained mason through FINISH Ink’s training in May 2021. I have gained a lot of skills and started training my fellow youth. So far, I have completed building three modern toilets and there are two more in progress” “The importance of these improved toilets we are building is that they can be…
Mary Kakita giving a health talk to a community member during a household visit “My role as a CHV is to raise awareness on the importance of having a latrine and also ensure they construct facilities using the FINISH latrine model that is long lasting and uses locally available materials.” “Training for this course in…
Can you imagine having to walk over one kilometre to relieve yourself every time you needed to use the toilet? This was the reality for 29-year old Anna Ajuma.Before constructing a latrine in their homestead, Mary and her three children used to defecate in the bushes, open fields or near a river. During rainy seasons,…