2010 will be a busy but definitely fruitful year for the Sama village and the villagers.
It has always been a priority to improve the villagers' state of health. However, it is insufficient to merely build a clinic and set up the basic healthcare infrastructure in the village. The villagers themselves have to learn certain things and adopt some good hygiene practices so as to reduce the incidence of common preventable sicknesses, which are direct results of poor hygiene practices.
As part of the healthcare objectives for 2010, a 'clean-the-village' campaign shall be implemented. Every household shall receive a bin or basket which they can discard their trash into. Currently, this is not practised by families as they dispose their rubbish everywhere (and nobody cleans up these garbage) or leave them lying around in their houses for months! So the objective of this initiative is to teach them in a practical way, that garbage should only go into designated bins.
The plan is as such: During their weekly holidays (either Friday or Saturday), the school children will be assigned into groups and perform this volunteer service of collecting the trash from each households. They will then bring the garbage to a common dumping area where the biodegrable trash will be burnt. Those non-biodegradable ones such as plastic bottles etc, will either be kept for future recycling or used to make toys and handicrafts. Other recyclable items such as glasses and metals, will also be kept aside for future recycling.
In 2011, the plan will be to bring those non-biodegradable and recyclable items to Kathmandu to sell to recycling companies. However, there is much logistical issues which will have to be ironed out, such as the cost of transportation, which company to sell these items to and so on. Hence, this will have to be looked into before implementation.
Top: 2 children peering out from the roof of their houses.
Bottom: A glimpse of the houses the villagers stay in.
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