Forty-two Families

ADRA STP recently concluded forty-two latrines to benefit forty-two families in the community of Praia Melão. This investment in health and sanitation was possible through a US Embassy grant.
Praia Melão is situated at the south of the capital city of São Tomé and Principe and is mainly a fishing community. During the last country wide cholera outbreak, in Praia Melão alone were reported close to 4% of the total cases, accounting as one of the most affected communities in the country.
ADRA developed an adapted latrine due to the strong cultural resistance to use regular pit latrines. The ADRA latrines are provided with a water seal and are no longer called latrines but restrooms by the beneficiary families; many have improved their latrines with toilet seats or floor tiles.
Soon after the Cholera outbreak ADRA STP started to build these culturally adapted latrines in Praia Melão and the Community of Saudade. With the support of UNICEF, the Canadian Embassy and ADRA Portugal, more than 150 latrines have been constructed to date by ADRA since the Cholera Outbreack.
You can see more pictures of this program visiting our GALLERY (FIGHTING CHOLERA folder) at http://www.adra.st/