(2 Jun 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jinja, Eastern Uganda – 16 May 2025
1. Mid of masons mixing earthen material for flooring
2. Close of liquid pouring from cup
3. Various of masons making floor using earthen material
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Wanda, Construction Officer, Earth Enable:
“In the villages, people use cow dung to maybe take away the dust, but within the shortest time like in two days you see that the dust has come. And basically this floor will help that person come out of the dust.”
5. Wide of a homestead in Jinja
6. Various of construction workers collecting murram for flooring
7. Various of construction worker preparing floor
8. Various of worker compacting murram floor
9. Pan of construction worker treating murram floor
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Wanda, Construction Officer, Earth Enable:
“For the cement floor, it is expensive. Why? The client will have to buy cement, will have to buy the gravel, will also have to buy sand and in big quantities, and all that is money, vis-a-vis earthen floor. For us, we need only murram and you find out that the client doesn’t feel like maybe you are oppressing him. It’s very easy. He directs you where the murram is, you dig it and bring it to the site and you start construction.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jinja, Eastern Uganda – 17 May 2025
11. Various of Earth Enable staff mixing flooring material
12. Various of exterior of Earth Enable offices
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Noeline Mutesi, Marketing Manager, Earth Enable:
“Currently our communities, those that we are serving, have been facing issues that are a result of the dust that comes from the mud floors and the mud plasters. Such diseases has been like flu, malaria where by mosquitoes hide in those dusty places. We have also had incidences of jiggers, the lice, and all those other insects that bites people’s bodies, and also the bedbugs. But once we install for people these floors that are decent, without the dust, we get to get rid of all of these.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jinja, Eastern Uganda – 16 May 2025
14. Wide of local leader and client Simon Tigawalana walking in his compound
15. Close of children’s dirty feet
16. Various of Tigawalana’s children
17. Various of Tigawalana showing his earthen floor
18. Various of Tigawalana’s children playing inside their house
19. SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Simon Tigawalana, local leader and earthen floor client:
“I am very happy because there is no dust in the house like there used to be. The floor used to have holes that the rats had dug and rats used to disturb us a lot but now there are no rats in the house.”
20. Various of cattle at Earth Enable client Rehema Namukose’s home
21. Wide of Namukose walking
22. Various of Rehema preparing a meal
23. SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Rehema Namukose, Earth Enable client:
“The dust was too much and you don’t even get to clean very well all the household items get full with dust so because of that we don’t even get to buy nice household items in the house because that’s just wastage of money with all the dust in the house but if they put this cement in my house, the house will be very clean and dust free and I will be able to buy new household items.”
24. Various of Earth Enable staff working on a floor
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jinja, Eastern Uganda – 17 May 2025
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Noeline Mutesi, Marketing Manager, Earth Enable:
26. Wide of exterior of Earth Enable offices
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A cheap, eco-friendly flooring system is helping to improve health and bring down construction costs in Uganda.
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