Location: Nebbi District, Uganda
Type of Event: Community Education Event
Description: For World NTD Day, Alliance Water Solutions will partner with Nebbi District leadership and RTI International to raise critical awareness about trachoma especially promoting facial cleanliness, use of safe and clean water, construction and use of pit latrines for human waste disposal. The day’s events will include a sensitization meeting of all leaders in the sub county and a local parade led by a community brass band displaying messages on trachoma prevention. Young people will be mobilized joined by health workers and village health teams. The parade will end at the sub county headquarters where the district leaders especially the chairperson of the district council will speak about trachoma and its effect on the population.
This will lead to :
• Increased visibility of national efforts to eliminate NTDs
• Increased awareness on trachoma especially how it is prevented.
• Very high treatment coverage during the April 2020 MDA
For more information: http://www.alliancewatersolutions.org/#ntds
alliancewatersolutions@gmail.com
