Healthy competition leads to reduction in diarrhea
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in partnership with Johnson & Johnson began working in Cameroon to provide training and tools for residents in Lobeke National Park to construct latrines in their communities. A friendly competition between villages led to rapid construction across a region where sufficient sanitation is nearly non-existent. As a result, the Salapoumbé Private Catholic Hospital in southeastern Cameroon reported that cases of childhood diarrhea admitted to the hospital dropped significantly in the course of a few months after the latrines were introduced. Building on this success, funds were extended to the hospital to create an additional water source, thereby providing clean water to its patients, as well as general residents.
Contributed by World Wildlife Fund