A central component of the AKDN's Comprehensive Sanitation Initiative is generating demand for improved hygiene practices, tackling age-old norms and transforming long-standing behaviour change – and thereby improving the quality of life.

Naigino Martha is deaf. She lives with her sister about 30km outside of the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Martha, like many others, works as a casual labourer at a factory on the outskirts of the city. She has not been able to work since lockdown began. The Aga Khan Foundation, in partnership with the National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda, has provided cash relief to support the most critical needs of women and girls with disabilities as well as to share life-saving health information.