School Sanitation & Hygiene Program

Location:	Trichrirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Category:	Health
Published:	03 March 2008
Progress:	60% funded
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Poor sanitation in schools have multiple ill effects: poor health, low school enrollment, absenteeism, poor classroom performance and early school dropout specially among girls. This project is aimed at inculcating good hygiene practices among children and to provide them with adequate sanitary facilities for conducive learning environment and to practice proper hygiene behavior. Due to absence of sanitary facilities in the villages and schools there are high incidence of water and sanitation related diseases specially among children. Furthermore open defecation is leading to contamination of the river Cauvery on the banks of which the villages are situated. Through the school sanitation program we aim to make children the change agents and to help children imbibe healthy and hygienic behavior . WTO is addressing community sanitation through a separate sustainable sanitation program
The key features of the school sanitation project are:
Hygiene Education
Formation of School Health Committees
Health Camps
Hygiene Kit
Train the Trainers
Construction of 2 new toilet blocks
Repair and retrofitting in 5 school toilets
Sanitary Napkin Incinerator for Adolescent girls in schools

The project will be implemented in partnership with our on ground member organization who has developed expertise in urine diversification toilets, an ecological sanitation technology. Ecosan is a holistic concept to prevent contamination and pollution of water and to re utilize the excreta into fertilizers and nutrients

Incomplete (3):

• 13 Health Camps

  15% funded

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  • Redeem Voucher
  One for 37.69 Euro. • Still needed: 415 Euro • Published 03 March 2008
  As part of the school hygiene program, health camps will be conducted in 13 schools which would include film shows, competitions, skits and other extra curricular activities to promote hygiene practices among children

• 750 school children Train the Trainer

  0% funded

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  • Redeem Voucher
  One for 1.63 Euro. • Still needed: 1225 Euro • Published 03 March 2008
  Train the trainer is an important aspect for the sustainability and the continuity of the program after the project exit. 750 children will be trained to continue training new batch of children and to reinforce the learning

• 2 Health Educators Honorarium for 2 years

  0% funded

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  • Redeem Voucher
  One for 1375 Euro. • Still needed: 2750 Euro • Published 03 March 2008
  Health Educators essential part of the program as they would conduct hygiene education, train and trainers and follow-up on the learning and practices for 13 schools for 2 years

Completed (4):

• School Toilet

  100% funded
  3260 Euro. • Published 03 March 2008
  Ecological Sanitation toilet including sanitary napkin incinerators for adolescent girls will be constructed for schools which currently do not have any sanitary facilities for children. Requirement is for 2 school toilets

English (1):

• New Toilet-Blessing for girls

  by D. Chaudhary, posted 10 months ago

  

  Dear Friends at betterplace.org, thank you so much for gifting a school toilet. We would be beginning the construction work in September. The toilet will be constructed in Ayyampalayam High School, a rural school in Southern India having on roll 6

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Supporters (13):

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  E. Reineck
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  Renée F.
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  L. Moench
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  renate m.
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  Manfred B.
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  Joana B.
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  C. Stromer

Advocates (2):

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  Josefina P.

  F • Berlin, Germany

  In order to change the attitude towards hygiene in society the best place to start is within schools. Children need to live the experience of using toilets rather than explaining it to them. The health consequences of using a toilet are fundamental to allow them a consistent school education. Also it is them that will educate their parents and thus society. Empower them to teach. I have met Jack Sim, the CEO and founder of the WTO in Berlin recently and share his vision of allowing 2,6 billion people to have access to sanitation by empowering them to know ho to do it themselves and wanting it.

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