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This project is aimed at providing Pit- Latrines to schools in the suburbs of Kampala.The project will be implemented in 4 schools namely Kalinabiri Primary school, Uganda School for the Deaf,Bukoto Muslim School. The Project will benefit about 2,500 children. These schools enroll children from needy/disdvantaged/ families and disabled children who have no access to water borne toilets.The few Pit Latrines they have a full and smelly. Therfore funding of this project will provide a better environment to these children,reduce on deseases associated with poor sanitation for example diarrhea.
What United Nations Agencies say about Sanitation.
In low hygiene regions in Uganda, United Nations bodies have carried out a lot of research on sanitation, which has shown alarming results. The International Rescue Committee [IRC] discovered that in Karamoja district of Uganda; over 60% of households are littered with faeces while pit latrine coverage is less than 9%.
According to another report by the United Nations Agency for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [UNOCHA], the death rate in low hygiene regions in Uganda is 17.4% for every 100 live births. This is manly a result of diarrhea which is caused by poor sanitation.
The act of helping one’s self from the bush is common in many other parts of Uganda and it is made worse by rural poverty where most adults and pupils don’t wear shoes even in the rainy season. The majority of Ugandans walk Barefoot.
Rural cattle keepers and those households depend on wood energy for cooking, walk barefoot in the jungle to tend their livestock and to collect firewood, while rural people resort to nature as an alternative for pit latrines. Many children and adults (in the rain season) often suffer swollen-itching feet locally known as obugeregere, a sign that develops after stepping on littered faeces.
Narration
Conventional (Water-Borne/Flushing) Toilets that are taken for granted in developed countries, do not exist in 99% of homes in Africa – where Pit Latrines were introduced b Colonial masters, who Administrated Africa from the 19th to the 20th Century. These are pits dug usually up to 40 feet deep and 2 feet wide, and covered on top with planks of timber or logs of wood, over which the user squats over a hole. Hygiene demands that such a hole be kept covered after use – to control flies, which would otherwise roam from faeces in the pit onto food etc – thus, spreading disease.
It is estimated that only 30% of rural homes in Uganda posses such rudimentary pit latrines but 1/3 without walls or any cover for privacy – not even between parents and kids who can surprise them at awkward moments throughout life! Poverty makes wall construction a luxury where families are starving. When planks of wood rot away, they (sometimes) cause tragic accidents ending in deaths (drowning in a sea of faeces).
Schools therefore moved away from planks of wood which are now prohibited, requiring school owners (mostly missionaries) to cast concrete slabs over the excavated pits – to ensure safety for children, where girls toilets (usually one for each of 7 classes) are kept at a distance from boys toilets. Such pit latrine (at 40x2x21 feet) for 2,000 kids (6-15 years of age) can last for over 10 years before coming filled up. | 
