TEMEKE Municipal Council has received 1.3b/- to help improve availability of clean and safe water and liquid and solid waste management in unplanned settlements.
While receiving the aid from Water Aid,
Temeke District Commissioner (DC), Ms Sophia Mjema, said on Friday that
the donation came at the right time as the municipality and other
regions were facing serious repercussions of cholera outbreak.
“Since the outbreak in August, the
municipality had already spent more than 600m/- in fighting the endemic
from which shortage of safe and clean water as well as lack of equipment
to collect solid and liquid waste were, among others, to blame ,” said
Ms Mjema.
The project will be implemented by
People’s Development Forum (PDF) in collaboration with the Council in
Kibondemaji, Charambe and Kiburugwa wards. The DC also urged municipal
staff to educate members of the society on the importance of drinking
safe water and clean their environment to keep their municipality clean.
“It is important for the municipal staff
to educate and participate in cleaning the environment instead of
sitting in their offices. We should support efforts of our sponsors like
water aid to see to it that their aid did not go to waste or in vain,”
she added.
Earlier, the Water Aid Director, Dr
Ibrahim Kikol said the project will not only ensure availability of safe
and clean water to the intended societies but also sustain collection
of liquid and solid wastes.
“The filthy situation keeps getting
worse every day in Dar es Salaam and if serious measures are not taken
by both government and private sectors, it is likely that a series of
epidemics will continue to strike the communities,” said Dr Kikol.
The project is expected to build nine
liquid waste transfer stations; drilling new wells, improved water
infrastructures and moreover various entrepreneurs who will be
interested to be involved in the cleaning exercise will be loaned to buy
sanitary equipment
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