To attain the goal of 100% coverage of households with sanitary toilet facilities, one has to mobilize the available resources. Equipping the community people with knowledge, and changing their behavior on environmental sanitation, are considered to be the root cause of this problem.
Last
April, 2019, Team Venus was able to procure the 20 toilet bowls requested from
the Sanitary Inspector for the residents of the barangay. Traditional sanitation program which includes
distribution of toilet bowls, only resolves the immediate problem but not the
root cause. A community-empowering approach was conducted through Community-Led
Total Sanitation on the same month, which targets behavioral change and is a
helpful tool for the group to address this major issue. The team also considers
Community-Led Total Sanitation as an effective and practical means of bring
change in the family’s behavior. Through CLTS, the residents had the initiative
to find the means in constructing their own toilet facility and for the
community to achieve Zero Open Defecation.
