The project is also helping to build latrines in individual homes.
Health experts say the initiative has helped reduce incidences of diarrhea among the 8,000 households in the district.
They say before the introduction of the project in 2008, 0.2 percent of the district's population were infected, which is very high by world standards. Today, it's been reduced to 0.007 percent.
Beatrice Munyowa, one of health Instructors in the district, explains how that level was reached.
“To maintain the hygiene standards," she says, "we provide chlorine to the communities for treating the water and we also advise them to always cover the water and always keep clean the borehole surroundings.”
Besides advice from health experts, villagers themselves have formed committees responsible for the sanitation and the maintenance of the boreholes.
Emily Batumeyo, the secretary of the water point committee at Kasokeza village, says apart from the reduced incidents of water borne diseases, the project has made it easier to access clean water.
“Before the initiative," she says, "we used to travel long distances to fetch clean water. For example we would wake up early in the morning to battle for clean water at a water point which was as far as three kilometers away. Sometimes we would spend a night [there].”
The organization is implementing the project with support from international NGOs Global Sanitation Fund, Charity Water and Climate Justice Fund. Harawa says funds permitting; the NGO is planning to extend the initiative to the rest of the district to reach its goal of ensuring that everyone has access to safe water by 2018.
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