Families and Communities

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Water

Safe clean drinking water is essential to human life and other life forms. Access to safe drinking water has improved steadily and substantially over the last decades in almost every part of the world. There is a clear correlation between access to safe water and GDP per capita. However, some observers have estimated that by 2025 more than half of the world population will be facing water-based vulnerability.

Keeping the importance of drinking water, CSHF has developed its capacity to intervene for improved access to safe clean water for poor and vulnerable communities of Uganda through activities like wells and springs protection and borehole maintenance and plans on well and spring constructions too.

Sanitation

A Safe sanitation is vital for people’s health, economic well-being, dignity, and local environment. Uganda is off-track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal targets in sanitation. There are several reasons for this, notably; reluctance to talk about the subject itself, lack of initiative of political leadership on the subject, inconsistent ways of tackling the problem, and inadequate finance. Through its work on various sanitation-related themes, CSHF fosters knowledge and understanding on ideas and methods which help to improve sanitation coverage. This is important because access to safe sanitation improves health, generates economic development, promotes social development, helps the environment and is universally achievable.

Hygiene

Reducing diarrheal diseases and thereby improving health is a main objective for many water and sanitation programs. Hygiene is often referred to as the behaviors and measures which are used to break the chain of infection transmission at home and in the community.

CSHF is developing and training people of different communities on good hygienic practices like toilet washing facilities, Drinking water distillation facilities and hygiene talk shows and competitions so as to break the infection transmission chain for a better health.

Water is life and surely a gift of US$ 250 can help renovate and clean up a Well, Borehole or a Spring and a gift of US$1500 can help construct a protected spring for a community

Health Service Provision

You too can be part of the health campaigners with a support of US$80 to help visit 2 chronically ill patients or help treat 4 OVCs. Even any contribution towards the buying of land and construction of a Health Care Center for service delivery to the needy communities

Throughout Africa, thousands of community-based organizations are addressing the needs of children and families made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. These organizations are strengthening the traditional safety net of the extended family through wide ranges of vital programs and services often operating with minimal funding and with a great deal of volunteer support, community-based organisations are the front line response to the needs of people affected by HIV/AIDS. Very few funds are reaching this grassroots level that are working restlessly amongst the poor communities.

With 42 million men, women, and children infected with HIV/AIDS, the medical needs facing mission hospitals and other medical facilities are enormous. Your gifts will assist programs that provide medical care, including medications, laboratory investigations, HIV counseling and testing, PMTCT for those infected with HIV/AIDS.
We believe that people have many reasons for donating and contributing to the Health sector. You may wish to be part of this noble work and feel happy to save a life.

Your contribution can make a gigantic difference for those who are unable to go to health facilities and unable to pay for their treatment costs due to abject poverty and are fighting illnesses with local herbs in their homes and regardless of the size of your contribution or the motivation behind it, we are grateful for your great gift of hope to these people to be able to receive treatment at their door fronts.

Your donations could help to;

Buy Land and build a Health Care Facility to help reach more patients.
Hire qualified staff to help diagnise and treat patients both at the Health care facility and Mobile Clinics
Purchase and maintain the most needed medicines, portable medical equipment for the Health Care Facility and to be used in mobile clinic.
Deliver better health care services right down to the door steps of the poor and chronically ill patients through the Mobile clinic project.
Organize Medical camps and special programs like massive HIV/AIDS Sensitization using videos shows in remote communities with no access to Television for HIV updates and sensitization.