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.