In Arua,some primary school pupils who were using bushes for open defecation in refugee camps abandoned the act after PAG constructed a set of modern latrines with washrooms in their school premises. When the students were forced to resort to open defecation, the most affected were the girls, as many of them feared to go to the bushes to ease themselves, according to Ms Joyce Candiru, the Senior Woman Teacher of Katiku primary school, a bene ciary school.

Ms Candiru said the intervention of (PAG) had saved the students in the school, especially the girls, from the indignity of resorting to the disconcerting open defecation. “Before PAG came in, we were also using a temporary toilet that got broken and children were unable to use that. So they were going to help themselves in the bushes,” she said. “We are glad that we now have a latrine with washrooms for girls.”