By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friends,
Greetings. This reporting period we continue to provide much-needed sanitation support for local people affected by Typhoon Hagupit. Our effort is focused on training local artisans how to produce sanitation products especially toilet bowls. This is an important phase of our effort so we transfer the technology to the barrios. This period we were able to train a total of 15 local masons and they have produced and distributed a total of 75 toilet bowls already. Their approach is to sell the bowls at a small profit so that they earn some income and the reflows they use to produce more toilet bowls. We were able also to distribute a total of 300 hygiene kits consisting of soap, toothbrush and toothpaste to 300 families.
Aside from the production, we were able to link-up with a local NGO who are providing sanitation behavioral change training to barrio leaders and the training is called "community-led total sanitation." This is with the realization of the need to change behaviors of those without toilets to use and manage their toilets properly and help contain the spread of diseases. We were able to send 3 of our staff to a train the trainers program.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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