Kibo Reports

Community Empowerment - Kitukiro - Buyende

Participation Rating: 2
Success: The jerrycans are clean and the surrounding area.
Village Critical Needs: The neighboring village needs a borehole to reduce draining of Kitukiro well.
Village Action Steps: Start teaching children to brush and themselves
Staff Action Steps: Prepare lessons.
Sanitation Hygiene Committee: yes
Water Users Committee: yes
Other Class Notes

Community Ownership: no
Ownership Story
Three Stone Fires: no
Access to Clean Water: yes
Open Defecation: no
Water Access Explain
Prevent Ownership: Unknown
Allow Ownership: Unknown
Village Notes: Kitukiro is preparing their land for the next season as well as drying cassava and potatoes.

Men Attendees: 5
Women Attendees: 19
Staff Attendees: Ida Bazonona
Government Attendees: None
Visitor Attendees: None
Total Attendance: 24
Lesson Taught: Health lesson 5: Teeth Cleaning
Notes: Ida went to Kitukiro and taught a health lesson about teeth cleaning. Ida asked if there was any one who knows how to care for their teeth. One member raised her hand and said by brushing. Gonza said by smoking. Kateme said the only medicine for rotten teeth is extraction. Ida asked the community to write down the steps of preventing tooth decay as Irene Ngobi elaborated. . Brush your teeth twice a day. .Reduce sugary foods and drinks. Don’t smoke or chew tobacco. . If you can visit a dentist for checkup and cleaning. Irene encouraged the community to brush with the available things they have eg salt,ash if they don’t have toothpaste with fluoride. She continued advising them not to use urine as toothpaste, cigarettes as medicine instead go to the hospital.