Youth around parts of the country have been encouraged to maintain hygiene in the areas where they live so they can actively prevent diseases that come from dirt from affecting their health.

This gathering was held in the Kamwokya community and attended by organizations including the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development; KCCA; and the African Women Agribusiness Network to teach youth to recycle waste and also add value to things that don't seem useful.

Various organizations, including the African Women Agribusiness Network, KCCA, and the Ministry of Gender, Labor, and Social Development, gathered in a community around the Kamwookya areas to meet the youth and sensitize them on matters pertaining to hygiene and healthy living.

They were taught how they can use items that are believed to no longer have value and turn them into useful things, as well as how to utilize small spaces for productive projects like farming a small space for farming

Pamela Makumbi Oketcho from African Women Agribusiness Network who was representing the leadership of this organization, asked youth to make effort to ensure that hygiene in their areas is promoted

She says that they did this to ensure serious diseases that come from dirt are eliminated

Chemutai Syndia, legal affairs Ministry of Gender, Labor, and Social Development, says that the ministry will make an effort to ensure that the African child is taught hygiene and asked them to turn waste into useful things

The chairman of Kamwookya Church Area Zone Joseph Kato together with officials from KCCA, says that the approach of teaching youth will help them a lot and asked the youth to put into practice what they are told

Meanwhile the youth who were in the training told us that this has helped them a lot and they pledged to put into practice what they have been told but they also have some requests