Share the Gift of Water
The Wellington Rotary donated funds to the Toronto Eglinton Rotary Club in support of Rotary International's Bugiri Water Sanitation & Hygene (WASH) project in Uganda. The initiative is being undertaken in collaboration with the Ntinda Rotary Club in Uganda, and is called the WASH in Schools project. The project calls for:
-construction of 60 latrine stances
-building 18 rainwater harvesting systems.
-drilling 3 boreholes
-installing hand-washing facilities with soap
-a number of community and school support programs-child and teacher training, menstrual hygiene management, school health clubs, training in O&M (operations and maintenance)