Toilet for Motibot!

Inadequate Improved Toilet Facilities

 Community Health Problem #3  

One of the goals of the WHO is that every person in the world has access to toilets that safely contain excreta. This is essential to protect the health of individuals, communities and the environment from disease such as diarrhea.

Diarrhea is the top 2 cause of morbidity in Barangay Motibot since 2014.  The department of health already stressed out that basic toilet facilities should be a necessity for every Filipino household more than having mobile phones. However, in the Barangay only 359 (70.6%) out of 508 have an improved sanitation facilities; 134 (26.4%) of the household have limited sanitation, 41 households have unimproved sanitation facilities and 12 have no sanitation services at all.

During the house to house survey, people from the uplands, sectors 6 and 7, have been pointing out their lack of toilet facilities, aside from it’s too far from lowland, it is also due to their lack of finances. Toilet facilities were one of the top 10 perceived problems of the community. Hence, during the assembly the barangay key persons prioritized inadequate toilet facilities as their number one problem together with hypertension. Both parties then agreed to have the intervention with this problem. The goal of this project is to achieve one improved sanitary toilet per one household in Barangay Motibot.

One of the reasons for the lack of improved toilet facility among the residence of Barangay Motibot includes the lack of knowledge regarding the importance of having a toilet facility, financial instability and the poor implementation of the Philippine ordinance for toilet facilities and sanitation. The goal of this group is to deliver health teaching in order for the people to know the significance of having toilet facilities. Another goal is to provide toilet facilities through the help of the barangay officials, municipality government and DSWD’s 4Ps. The group also had the idea to implement the existing law which mandates the LGU to establish and provide communal and hygienic toilet facility.

With that, the group’s primary goal is to increase number of household with improved toilet facilities from 71% to 90% in Barangay Motibot, Zamboanga del Norte by the year 2022.


MARY PAULA ESTIVE
ADZU-SOM