It’s official! Our winter coat appeal is well and truly happening….with schools and individuals all across the country getting behind us to help us achieve our goal.
What is our goal? To collect as many good quality WARM winter coats as possible and pack these, together with gloves, scarves, hats and socks AND hopefully A BLANKET! These will be given out in the most desperately needy villages where children live in -30 degrees with no central heating, no coats (and no indoor toilet)! Imagine that… I can’t really, sitting inside my well heated and insulated home. I can only just imagine how hard it must be to live live that. It certainly makes me grateful for what I have.
If you would like to get involved (or get your child’s school involved) in this initiative we would LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!
With your help we can…. ‘keep a child warm’
Thank you,
Cyrilyn
sanitation levels not only in the school, but also the wider community of Nabigyo. The toilets that the majority of the community use are pit latrines which are holes dug into the ground with a couple of wooden boards either side. Approximately 40-80 people could use this one hole!! So when they get full, they are covered over and a new one is dug. They look something a bit like this…
toilet. The hole is dug down as far as the water table will allow and then lined with bricks and cement. The toilet and wash area are then built above this, again from bricks and cement and then a roof is put on top. This creates a permanent structure which can be emptied and to which chemicals can be added to kill the bacteria and mosquito larvae. Through our supporters in the UK we have been able to
fund the building of the first two community toilets in Nabigyo. It may not look much to us, but it has changed the lives of the people who are now using them.