200 set to start CLTS

HEALTH workers and volunteers have undergone training on hygiene and sanitation under a project called community-led total sanitation (CLTS).
It is a new project by the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (RWSSP) which had been carried out in Central, Gulf, Eastern Highlands and Madang.
The implementation of the CLTS in other provinces would be complemented with 400 new water supply projects and up to 20,000 newly constructed or improved minimum standard latrines which were targeted to be completed within the next six months.
A fifth hygiene and sanitation promotion workshop funded by the European Union was carried out in Goroka in September.
The workshop was the fifth of eight workshops nationwide during which more than 200 health workers were trained to facilitate the CLTS.
The participants included workers from national, provincial and district health offices, NGOs, churches and volunteers.
“There are still firm plans to train 50 more staff from within Western and more than 20 from the New Guinea Islands, then finish the pilot project with the largest CLTS training event so far, scheduled for the Trobriand Islands before the New Year,” RWSSP engineer  Stuart Jordon said.
“This final event will be a collaboration of the EU-RWSSP, a local member (MP), district government and health staffs, Living Waters (NGO) and several communities,” he said.