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We build rain water harvesting tanks with waste plastic bottles as bricks and also train communities to conserve nature in Kayunga Uganda.

Butakoola Village Association for Development (BUVAD) is an indigenous founded organisation, which started way back in 2006, in a small village of Butakoola in Kayunga District - Uganda and has built its legacy from a humble beginning as a grassroots community to a national Non-Governmental, Non ...

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Butakoola Village Association for Development (BUVAD) is an indigenous founded organisation, which started way back in 2006, in a small village of Butakoola in Kayunga District - Uganda and has built its legacy from a humble beginning as a grassroots community to a national Non-Governmental, Non Political and Non-Religious Organisation, Registration No: S.5914/8930, with a unique innovational - intervention approach, addressing a key communal-national and international challenge of accumulating carelessly disposed waste plastic bottles in focus of achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals namely;- 7 (Ensure Environmental Sustainability), 1( Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger) 8( Global Partnership for Development), 3(Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women). 

This is an integrated approach that addresses the following thematic objectives ; -

 a) Environmental protection through total removal of the hazardous waste plastic bottles that suffocate the soil not to decompose and encourage plant growth. Carelessly littered waste plastic bottles end up eroded into lakes, seas, oceans, rivers and other water bodies hence polluting them, denying human access to safe water and a thriving life for the aquatic nature. Also, our waste plastic bottles’ total removal approach avoids mishaps that result from the common local removal practice of burning like; emission of carbon gas and other toxic fumes that instead pollute the environment, denting the ozone layer and producing toxic rain all with affectious effects like; global warming, human cancers and deaths, animals deaths and nature depletion  .

 b) Human rights protection through increasing safe water storage levels, improving water, sanitation and hygiene levels in schools and households, ensuring a health schools atmosphere for the school children at the 24 targeted beneficiary schools and may be more in future, improving the educational and skill levels of bottle brick trained participants.  

c) Animal protection through encouraging re-afforestation and water bodies protection against waste plastic bottles that revitalizes habitation and multiplication ground for wild game, aquatic nature especially the endangered species.

Meanwhile, our approach addresses several other key goals of the millennium development goals (MDGs) like; improved access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation, child care and protection, women empowerment through training them to construct with bottle bricks, improvement of educational standards of both the adult and children.

We disseminate this innovational way of controlling waste plastic bottles’ accumulation to the rest of Ugandans, conducting training workshops that address disseminating basic information on environmental management of land and aquatic nature, annually targeting at least 300 participants at 6 selected community primary schools in Kayunga District of Uganda, per year, over a period of 4 years, along with creation of 6 trainees' community chains - water tanks construction cooperatives comprising of 50 members each per year and 24 over 4 years, targeting the construction of 1200 water harvesting tanks for 1200 beneficiary community households within this same period of 4 years. By the end of the 4 years training period, 24 school water tanks of 10,000 liters capacity shall have been constructed at 24 training workshop host schools. We have completed the first year workshops in  2016 .

We do conduct monthly monitoring, quarterly review meetings with project staff and beneficiaries, midterm review and conduct an end of project evaluation. Dissemination of findings is done quarterly to beneficiary communities,  partner organizations, and our member networks’ Medias for information sharing.



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Stephen Ssemutumba