Melissa. Sustainable.

Writer- Melissa Kyeyune | NGO- Water For People | Country- Uganda | SDG- Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation | Year- 2017 | SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation | For about a month now, Eric has come home from school every day to find his mother Anne talking to a different neighbor from their village of Okidoi in Soroti District. Today he has just completed his Primary Leaving Examinations and should perhaps be celebrating with the other children, but he has rushed home, set his schoolbag down and slipped easily into his mother’s negotiations. This is his favorite part of the day. “The satopans are fifteen thousand shillings,” he tells the neighbor, with a big smile. His mother nods at him to continue engaging this prospective customer, while she goes and talks to another one who has just arrived on his bicycle. Eric continues to make the sale enthusiastically, “Once the satopan is in your latrine, you will no longer have flies. There will be no bad smell!” The customers...

Writer- Melissa Kyeyune | NGO- Water For People | Country- Uganda | SDG- Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation | Year- 2017 | SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation | When Jacinta Bujune speaks, everyone listens. All 120 of them. As the chairperson of Ashawo II Savings Group, Soroti District she not only sensitizes the 31 members of her savings group about sanitation, but also ensures that the same message reaches three other savings groups. Under the Sanitation As A Business approach, Water For People identifies community leaders such as Jacinta, to create demand for sanitation goods and services which are then provided by community wholesalers and engineers. Jacinta herself was empowered by Water For People. At her home, the cement slab in her latrine was cracked rendering the whole structure unsafe. Also there were flies and the bad smells associated with most latrines. She was advised by Water For People to acquire a WASH loan from partner financial institution- Post Bank. S...