Patience Makasiato Educates Her Community With Monetary Support!

Patience shows the newly installed latrine

Patience Makasiato and her neighbor show off the “SanPlat” or sanitation platform they constructed with the help of community health worker Patricia Chimaliro.  One of the jobs of VillageReach community health workers is to teach villages how to cast and install SanPlats for pit latrines. These SanPlats are a key component of long-lasting latrines that do not collapse during the rainy season, helping to decrease diarrheal diseases and cholera for children and adults throughout the village.  Patricia works with three villages – Sitima, Kasonya and Chipumi – to educate residents on water and sanitation issues, including training villagers on how to create their own safe and long-lasting latrines.  Having a dedicated community health worker like Patricia helping in the community gives Patience the skills and resources she needs to help decrease diarrhea diseases in her village.

Thank you to Anil, Rupali and Tom for supporting an entire month of a community health worker salary!