Environmental Protection
- Public Latrines Project
One of the grave problems that underdeveloped countries face is water-born and dirt-related a disease which has caused a high child mortality rate. Children die from easy to prevent diseases such as typhoid. The houses in Holeta where CDA is at, are built so closely together that they don’t have space for latrines.
This causes people to use open fields or plastic bags (which they dump in the ditch) to relieve themselves. This is the area; the public Kindergarten is situated.
At the school, where Covenant help support 150 children, they were using an open-pit latrine which was hazardous for their health, since it fosters the spread of disease. This last year, with the help of some of the members of Addis Kidan Denver Ethiopian Church, the open pit latrine was replaced with a clean public latrine. The building is a building with two restrooms, one for girls and one for boys. Moreover, alongside the building of the public latrines, training on health and hygiene has been, and still is, part and parcel of the project.
We have a program of duplicating the public latrine project in DamotgaleWorda, Wolita where we support 40 families with no latrine at all. We have a plan of constructing 15 public latrines in the area to help the community keep clean and healthy. We will be training on health and hygiene with our program of disease prevention.