COMMUNITY SANITATION AND INVOLVEMENT, This is a global trend and calls for mass commitment

Introduction

• In Africa especially in the rural parts, there are various activities which are conducted by the leaders who mobilize the entire community for community services and everybody was expected to get involved directly and this led to the cleaning of our communities.

• In doing this, it enabled keeping societies clean and this was not done by door to door but it was by the means of a drum for communication and this was written about in the past writing of mine and here i continue to bring out the importance of drums in Africa. In Africa as i have stated it about communal works, different people did different activities and this was according to sex and age groups.

African communal work

In Africa, there are various activities the community considered as communal and this called for joint efforts and mobilization of tools and people to take part and therefore, no one was expected to be left behind. These activities enabled different people to develop their mental and intellectual as well physical abilities. This stands up-to date and cannot be underestimated. Activities involved in consisted of the following.

• Cleaning water sources
  In Africa our tradition water sources include streams, springs, swamps and wells therefore there was need to clean these water sources so as to promote community sanitation and this involved various groups of people and different tools of cleaning. This was so because different people had their ow strength but the most people involved in cleaning around these water sources were the women and children but to a small extent men especially the youths.
  
• Cleaning the roads and pathways
  In Africa, our muddy roads or pathways or feeder roads are maintained by weeding off over grown grass and weeds and these are grow as the the conditions are favorable. In doing, it enables in maintaining the cleanliness of the road section. This involves filling port holes with excavated murrum or even the subsoil which is dug from borrow pits around and mainly from anti hills. The most popular group in doing this are the men or youths of the villages simply because of their strength and commitment to the authority image source.

• Munciple cleaning
  In Uganda where the writer comes from, our city Kampala and other major towns are heavily employing as amny companies to clean up the towns and thank to the Government support in this through their support in all areas. We have different companies like Nabugabo Cleaner, Bin in company and KCCA that is for the case of Kampala city. Many truckscarryout this with the help of man power.
  

Land fills sanitation Facilities
These are now existing in mostparts of the continent and have played amojor role in community clean up. These act as receiving areas for gabbage of different kind and sorting takes place so that recyclin is done for non biodegardable materials like plastics, glasses etc. In Uganda i know two common land fills, Kiteezi land fill located in Kanyanya and the other is in Jinja Uganda's second important city image source

Conclusion
In African tradtion, there were two major activities which called for communal work in the ancient Africa and this was the responsibilty of the entire local councils and other leaderships attached to the ruling authority. These helped the community in proper sanitation diseases were eliminated and dealt away with