Alfred Wasike
4 May 2008
Kampala — RUHAAMA county in Ntungamo district celebrated this year's International Women's Day in style by introducing a domestic health and sanitation competition among its 40,000 homesteads.
MP and wife of the President Janet Museveni organised the competition. The judges looked out for a clean house, kitchen with a katandaaro (cutlery rack), clean toilet or latrine, mosquito nets, well made beds for the parents and children.
Other yardsticks were a well-maintained walkway or driveway to the home, boiled drinking water, a granary and a minimum source of income.
"The family is a basic unit of everything. To save a generation, to save a society, to save a country you must start with a family. We needed to celebrate the Women's Day with a purpose," Mrs. Museveni said during the prize-giving ceremony on Satuday.
"It is uncalled for to look at things which are far away and forget the things that are close to you."
Ntungamo sub-county was voted the winner and the LC3 chairman, Eric Matenero, received a trophy because his area had the highest number of clean homesteads.
Other winners received certificates and prizes such as water tanks, solar systems, mattresses and washing buckets donated by the companies which contributed to the sanitation campaign.
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