littering plastic a peek into a looming danger in slums in kampala, uganda by &
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LITTERING PLASTIC
a peek into a looming danger in slums in Kampala, Ugandaby
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Slum Growth in Developing Countries
Nakivubo Settlement Water Way …
Plastic material flowing in Nakivubo channel next to the Uganda Police Fire headquarters in Kampala. Failure to enforce the ban on plastic bags poses great danger to Lake Victoria… New Vision Newspaper, Publish Date: May 01, 2013
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/642220-govt-silence-on-plastics-endangers-lakes.html
Images of Children in one of the Kampala Slums
Litter in a Typical Slum in Kampala, Uganda
Child in slum in Kampala (Uganda) next to Open Sewage
Children in Bwaise Slum, Kampala
Indiscriminative disposal of plastics leads to blocking of the water
channels…
…when the rains start, flooding is inevitable
Filthy drainage channels strewn with polythene bags, are used as a substitute for proper toilets
Photo: Keishamaza Rukikaire/IRIN
Garbage is still a big challenge in slums
PHOTO/Andrew Masinde
"Blocked drainage channels become breeding
grounds for diseases"
A home in a Kalerwe slum….
One such contaminated water channel …
…another contaminated water channel
Poor drainage as seen in Katanga Slum…
…and another
Garbage disposal in Kawempe
Sharing some facts…• Eroded plastics: -
– taking 700+years to rot, – become breeding places for microbes, leading to tropical diseases:
• malaria, • cholera, • dysentery and • bilharzia.
• National Upgrading Slum Strategy and Action Plan for Uganda reports: -– 50%+ people in Kampala leave in slums, – 50%+ of household occupants hospitalized every three months due
to these diseases. – 32% households lack pit latrine.– 63.3%households dumping areas
WE NEED TO ACT NOW …
…COLLECTIVE ACTION NEEDED
NOW
We want to copy a leaf from “Waste to Wealth, Nigeria” project
Our Version• Get the locals to collect plastics
– Clean them and bring them to a collection point
• The locals sell the plastics to the project on agreed market days– At the collection points, they are weighed and accorded points– Payment is in terms of academic materials demanded by schools– The plastics are sold to plastic industries in exchange for money
• End result– The children have scholastic materials for schools– The drainages are ridded of plastics– The project gets money
• To reinvest in profit making ventures• to pay the staff after the donor funding has come to an end
COMPILED BY
http://communicationwithoutborders.wordpress.com
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Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization http://krcdevorg.weebly.com
WITH SPECIAL THANKS
• Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development • United Nations Development Program • http://www.enterug`anda.com/brochures/images/garbagesite01.jpg• http
://caes.mak.ac.ug/images/Web_stories/Bwaise_III_photos/PA200014.JPG
• https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/544a7c43ecad041936a997af-960-720/these-children-play-at-the-edge-of-an-open-sewer-in-kampala-uganda.jpg
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/gtzecosan/3110617133/• http://www.fourjandals.com/africa/slum-tours-in-uganda/ • http://www.wateraid.org/where-we-work/page/uganda• http://www.irinnews.org/report/39624/uganda-glum-hiv-aids-outlook-f
or-kampala-s-slum-dwellers• http://www.newvision.co.ug/mobile/Detail.aspx?NewsID=647726&CatI
D=488• http://twekembe.org • http://www.livingearth.org.uk/projects/waste-to-wealth-nigeria/• http://
www.newvision.co.ug/newvision_cms/gall_content/2012/5/2012_5$largeimg216_May_2012_104335630.jpg
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