Sentences with phrase «using latrines»

Diarrhoea can be prevented by breastfeeding, by immunizing all children against measles, by using latrines, by keeping food and water clean, and by washing hands before touching food.

Personal hygiene and weaning foods Hands should be washed before preparing weaning foods and before feeding them to the baby, particularly after using the latrine.

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Concern's field teams mobilize communities to build their own household latrines from locally available materials using the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach.

Diarrhoea can be prevented through exclusive breastfeeding, improved weaning practices, measles immunization, use of latrines, washing hands (the baby's as well), keeping water and food clean, washing with soap before touching food and by sanitary disposal of stools.

The CLTS model, which encourages communities to use local materials to construct latrines was adopted in 2015 and triggered the certification of 15 communities as open defecation free, with 42 more being certified in 2016.

«I was used to pit latrines and no running water.»

Even fancy latrines with metal sheeting and concrete bases run about $ 100, and the price drops if people use wood and palm fronds and dig the 3 - meter pits themselves.

It would mean you wouldn't have to pop home if you were out shopping in town, you could have used the public latrines, which would have been a good idea.

In the latrine, archaeologists found used hygiene sticks wrapped with cloth.

When male rivals were sensed in the area, lemurs visited their latrine more often, marking the trees using specialised glands.

It was not the most obvious business plan in a nation that used squat latrines.

In those days nitre was collected from the walls of cesspits and latrines, or from the leachings of manure and soil, and was used to make gunpowder.

An ideal solution would be «a modern equivalent of the chamber pot,» said Strash, one that would also tackle the cultural issues of handling human waste and move communities away from using open pit latrines.

After adjustment for factors likely to affect re-infection such as latrine use and drinking water source, 14 % of the children in the handwashing with soap groups (handwashing alone and handwashing plus nail clipping) were re-infected with parasites compared to 29 % of the children in the no handwashing groups (nail clipping only or neither intervention).

The study, published in the journal PLOS One, was carried out using video cameras installed in the washing areas outside latrines of four public schools in the sprawling Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.

On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»

Using wildlife cameras, we documented over 40 potentially susceptible vertebrate species in latrines and adjacent habitat.

There are some flaws to this approach as many cats that like to use the flushing model will perch on the rim, something that is no longer possible when converting this model into a den - style latrine.

I remember a prior Dot Earth article in which it came to light that people used local beaches as latrines where the shit simply lay on the top of the sand.

Hyraxes tend to use communal latrines, resulting in crystallized deposits that whiten the cliff faces below.

In some other cultures the matter is less abstract, because the left hand is relegated to latrine duty and, so, using it for much else would be beyond gauche.

«When we used the pit latrine before, and it rained, sometimes the water would come out,» Rartjarasoaniony tells me.