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Summary

Housing is a basic need in life, but due to high levels of poverty in Uganda many families have no access to decent housing. Community Shelters Uganda are building houses for 50 families who are currently homeless or in inadequate and unsafe housing and providing pit-latrines, bathrooms and water tanks for harvesting clean water. These houses will be built for targeted vulnerable people, such as the elderly, HIV/AIDS affected and infected mothers and children.

Challenge

Mbale District is one of the districts found in Eastern Uganda that have been adversely affected by poverty since independence. According to the needs assessment report conducted by Community Shelters Uganda (CSU), the district had an estimated population of 361,329 of which about 42% are in abject poverty without decent homes. Many years of poverty have undermined the population's capacity to be self-sufficient and have reduced the community development to deplorable levels.

Solution

The project will provide simple decent houses for the selected needy homeless families, Improved pit-latrines, bath rooms and waters tanks for harvesting clean / safe water to targeted groups such as the elderly persons, HIV/AIDS affected and infected mothers and children. Better houses will drastically reduce on malaria prevalence and many other health challenges that have affected these communities over time.

Long-Term Impact

The project will contribute sustainably to the improvement of living standards of the underprivileged. Better housing for vulnerable groups such as the elderly or HIV/AIDS affected families will drastically improve health and sanitation conditions in the long term for the whole community, including reducing the impact of malaria.