This place hides a sprawling mass of humanity living in makeshift shacks with no running water, pay per use common latrines and whose meager means make basic needs like school and clinics behold reach. It is located between Makerere University, Nakulabye and Kasubi market.

 

The primary struggle in these areas is for money: money to pay the landlord for the one-room, mud-floored, tin roofed shack with no toilet or running water, money to buy food because there is no room to grow anything.

 

And even money to pay for the communal toilets. Generally without any form of income, survival in this slum is impossible. Actually, people must work extremely hard just to meet their basic needs.

 

The greatest nightmare these people have to cope with is the lack of a functioning drainage and sanitation system.  They must endure the sight of filthy narrow alleys, sludge of human waste from shallow latrines flowing into nearby streams, a situation that gets worse during the rainy season leading to swamping of entire neighborhood with dirty water.

 

This accounts for the high incidences of diseases like typhoid, malaria and diarrhea in the region.

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