Uganda – Tororo to Fine Homes Without Pit-Latrines

THE Tororo district council is to impose a sh50,000 fine on homesteads near schools that lack pit-latrines. The district health and education committee chairperson, Jacinta Ayoo, said about 50% of communities living around schools lacked pit latrines.

She said the communities instead use the school pit latrines, which fill up faster and constrain authorities in terms of emptying sewage and digging new ones.

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