By Jovita Mirembe
Farmers in Mbalala village and its surroundings will no longer give their animals and birds contaminated water after their wells were flushed.
Flushing is the process of using the cleaning action of moving water to help free a water supply of contaminants and this was done by Victorious Education Services.
Alice Kizza a resident of Mbalala village in Lugazi town council says she has been a poultry farmer for the last 20 years but her birds have been taking this contaminated water from the wells hence getting diseases and dying in big numbers.
‘ My business hasn’t been performing very well because my birds have been dying due to drinking contaminated water from natural wells. Iam happy that Victorious Education services has helped in flushing our wells so that we can get clean water’ Kizza says
Ronald Lule a cattle farmer says that his cattle have been getting sick because of the contaminated water from wells when they drink it . He says that because the water is contaminated by waste coming from the industries in and around Mbalala village and waste from drainages which enters into wells in the end it spreads diseases.
Florence Owfono the Community Affairs Officer of Victorious Education Services said that under the community Services Victorious do and alos cleaning the environment sweeping the roads and picking dirty stuff from the road and throwing them in the rubbish pits. She said that the littered rubbish is one of the items which clog the water wells.
He said that they engage even the children in Victorious Primary Schools which are under them in the areas they are situated to teach children keeping the environment clean.
The head teacher Christine Atikuru of Victorious Primary School Mbalala which is called the Ebenezer campus, said that Mbalala has neighboring villages namely Nakapinyi , Kasenge A, Kasenge B, Kapeke and Nakapinyi North will benefit from the flushed wells to get clean water.
The Information Secretary Kasenge B Alex Wamala Salongo thanked Victorious Education Services for this gesture that will save also the residents of taking contaminated water that has been spreading typhoid to them.
