Sanitation in Katoogo slum in Ggaba.

By Kasozi Chrisestom, S.5
Well, we did this but, the most irritating thing was that, the sanitation of the area was really bad. finding people dwelling in places where animals can't bear living. Finding on a hot sunny day, flooded environment, is it just because it's on the shores of lake Victoria that people are like its normal this way? Well this goes back to my research, the people down there are not all willing but its because of their standards of living.
imagine finding a home that is really filled with water and people have vacated it leaving some of their belongings, maybe sometime they will come back for them.

Flooded house in Katoogo slum

Poor garbage disposal being another sanitation related problem, hopefully there being not efficient supervision of place by the city council to help these people out, on garbage collection just like in any other place of the city. The council just passes by the place thinking that there are no lives down there after all the place is not even identified on some maps.

Disposal area in Katoogo, just next to a residential place.

Another thing is the "issue of future generation leaders" who never get chance to have their education in the best classrooms but also hopeful to gain heights,

Bad conditioned classroom in Katoogo slum

the only possible hindrance being the state of their study facilities like you can see the classroom.

Then another problem is the poor maintained sewage channels that are not protected in that children can easily contact diseases from there. 

MAPPING KATOOGO

This is the process of creating a detailed map about Katoogo and the problems faced.

 I am from St.Denis Ssebugwa senior Secondary School located in Ggaba.

Katoogo  is also located in Ggaba and is a nearby our school and some of our students come that area.

They face problem and we and my team came up with a solution to solve these problems faced.

PROBLEMS FACED IN KATOOGO.

• FLOODING- this is a common disaster in most countries around the world and some of you know that some people die through dawning and many others.
• INSECURITY- we have discovered their is a lot of insecurity in the community in this area like Theft, drug abuse, e.t.c this mean that people who don't have jobs involve in this mostly in theft which causes insecurity gives hard work to the police.
• POOR SANITATION- this is also part of the problems faced in the community that the people have a poor disposal of garbage in the area. This can cause some of the deadly diseases like Cholera,Diarrhea which may cause dehydration, e.t.c.
• INADEQUATE WATER SUPPLY- there are less water supplies in the community.
• INACCESSIBILITY- they face a hard way of accessing some facilities for example educational and health facilities because they have less accessibility to they because of POVERTY.

THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE MAP.

• POLICE- to solve the problem of insecurity.
• COMMUNITY MEMBERS- to find for them jobs, get educational and health facilities e.t.c.
• NONE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
• STUDENTS (making ICT and GEOGRAPHY in practice)
• THE GOVERNMENT.
  

The Life In Katoogo.......

By Wokulira Emmanuel.
Form-5 science

It's  called Katoogo by all the people  around but me I call it apiece of the Bio-sphere where a number of people live.
Katoogo is a place a few meters from where I reside.It is occupied by a number of people though it is a slum. People who reside face a number of problems ranging from social, and economic.

Probably, the administrator just don't know what is happening down here that's why I and my fellow we what to break these walls between the residents and the administrators so that they get to know the situation this people are living in.
We sat and came out with an idea. It is creating  a map about the place indicating all the information required. This map is to be accessed by any one and it is editable by all in case there is new information that is required.
We do this with aid of simple tools like smart phone and G.P.S units that have installed application like O.S.M (Open Street map) tracker.  
By this, we are stressing our hard to empower the development of the area.

Flooding in Katoogo

But one may ask, "How will this help the local PEOPLE?"
This is going to be a platform on which the government can base while making decisions e.g Since it is Slum, it can decided to construct a public area where these people can settle thus conserving our environment or the government may provide these people with all that it can for the good of there life
     "TOGETHER WE CAN IMPROVE PEOPLE'S LIFE BY JUST USING SIMPLE TOOLS"

Poor Sanitation

The poor disposal of refuse which in turn lead to-
sensitized about the out comes.

The floodings in the slum

well,all the problems faced by

The Life Investigation In Katoogo

Katoogo briefly, it is a slum village or a village found in Katoogo. Me as a mapper I have ever gone there with my collides fellow mappers. In the fact what I saw there, it is not the situation I would love my fellow to be in.
On my arriving inside the village, People were suffering a problem of waterlogged where water entered would enter people's houses and imagine water create a hole on house and people do not have money to rebuild it. That situation in fact it did not please me but it just showed me the way to work hard and not to loose hope. Indeed I do not know whether these people were considered to be living there but we mappers and  I Abraham Lincoln Waswa. I have not sited but I am creating a map with my fellow collides, to help those people to show the administrators that those people are also there.
That there are lives going on in a place we all call a slum....
Katoogo will be uplifted by the help of our map.
It is going to solve people's problems. The water logging and poor health conditions and facilities like of hospitals all of their problems will be solved by the help of an Open Street Map.
Open Street Map is a free editable map made by we the people like you to solved the problems of the people a round the world. osm.org  you can visit this link and see the great work we have done.
Big-up to Namiya destiny, lugolobi, angella and others who we are in this thing together, thank you for the great job.
More info visit abrahamlincoln.waswa@gmail.com