This project will provide clean water and toilets facilities for 6 underserved urban slum markets in both Oyo and Osun States, Nigeria to reduce the current higher incidences of cholera outbreak, typhoid, and hepatitis A.
Seventy-three per cent of the diarrhoea and enteric disease burden in Nigeria is associated with poor access to adequate water and toilet facility, and is disproportionately borne by poorer children. Frequent episodes of water and sanitation-related ill-health (Hepatitis A, Cholera and Typhoid) in children, contribute to absenteeism in school, and malnutrition. Only 56.2% of market men and women in Oyo and Osun States use improved drinking water sources and 63.5% defecate in the open
Since the use of contaminated drinking water and poor sanitary conditions result in increased vulnerability to water-borne diseases, including diarrhoea which leads to deaths of more than 70,000 children under five annually in Nigeria. Providing equitable access to clean water and toilet facility will go a long way in ameliorating the problem.
The project will improve the availability of clean water and toilet facilities to the poorest urban slum markets by providing access to clean water and toilets to more than 500,000 households.
