The program is involving children and their parents at household levels to construct Tippy Taps for regular hand washing with soap, development of a Tippy Tap construction manual, training of village health teams on COVID-19 best prevention practices and use of village health teams to sensitize children and their parents on how to use Tippy Taps and soap for hand washing and how to use non-medical face masks in accordance to Ugandan ministry of health and WHO guidelines in context of COVID-19
Ugandan institutions of learning are closed, all businesses have experienced the largest effects of the risk associated with COVID-19. In addition, agriculture enterprises have been worst hit due to challenges of accessing inputs arising from transport restrictions and the ban on weekly markets, as well as due to the lost demand and the shift from consumption of fresh agricultural produce to dry rations.
This will involve children and their parents at household levels to construct Tippy Taps for regular hand washing with soap, finalize the Tippy Tap construction manual, training of village health teams on COVID-19 best prevention practices in addition to sensitizing children and their parents on how to use Tippy Taps and soap for hand washing and how to use non-medical face masks in accordance to Ugandan ministry of health and WHO guidelines in the context of COVID-1
Hand washing with soap will reduce further by 95% of 200 homes from getting COVID-19. "Tippy taps" are simple, free devices as convenient access point for water and a visual reminder to wash one's hands at crucial times like the current era of COVID-19. Incomes to be served by 25% since the technology is cheap in the current resource-limited setting. 50 village health team (VHT) members will be empowered with knowledge on best practices on COVID-19 prevention.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
