COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Community Development ~Water and Sanitation

AOC seeks to train 260 VDC members from 9 communes (23 villages) to take the lead role in safe water & sanitation construction, management, monitoring and related health education to 800 households in Lvea Em.

School Latrines

A significant part of community development is ensuring that 18 primary schools in southern Lvea Em have fully functional latrines that are used, cared for and maintained by school principals, teachers the students. Providing further support are the local commune and village leaders and parent representatives.

Emergency Relief

Working alongside with the district authorities and commune leaders, AOC provides support and assistance when emergency relief is required.

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Training

AOC incorporates a model that follows a holistic health strategy focusing on assisting communities to take responsibility for improving the health standards in their area.

The approach focuses on raising up local volunteers who will model and share what they have learned with their neighbors in their home setting and, in turn, encourage them to pass this on to others.

In this way the training continues to disseminate in an area after the training team has moved on.

AOC has a partnership agreement with MAI who will pay half the salary of the project workers for three years, provide trainers to train our trainers and provide ongoing advice. AOC provided quarterly reports back to MAI.