Shinyanga, 16 June, 2021 / 2:19 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) are facilitating the construction of new bathrooms at Don Bosco Didia Secondary school in the Catholic Diocese of Shinyanga in Tanzania.
The project is being realized through the "Clean Water Initiative” under the auspices of Salesian Missions, the U.S.-based development arm of SDB.
In a report published Wednesday, June 16 by Mission Newswire, the official news service of the Salesian Missions, the leadership says, “The school’s bathroom facilities were poor and unable to accommodate the 891 boys attending the school.”
“The structures were not up to standard, and the roof was leaking. In addition, the ceiling boards were destroyed and the walls blighted,” Salesian Officials say and add, “The toilets were dilapidated, and the holes for the pit toilets were worn out and weak with the possibility of collapsing with a small amount of pressure.”
The school is located in Northern Tanzania, an area with no perennial rivers or streams, with most watercourses flowing for only a few days per year. As a result, residents have traditionally used stagnant pools of rainwater for most human and livestock needs during the wet season and dug shallow pits in the river beds during the dry season.
