School Sanitation & Hygiene Program

Location:	Trichrirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Category:	Health
Published:	03 March 2008
Progress:	100% funded
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Rating:	27 Ratings

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

Supporters (12):

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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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  Renée F.
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  C. Stromer
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  Isabel K.

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  A. Körber
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  H. Knott
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  H. Cramer
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  Lilian b.
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  Moritz E.

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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  Joana B.

  44/F • Berlin, Germany

  I first read about the WTO when its founder received the prestigious Social Enterpreneur award of the Schwab Foundation in 2005. I think we all can relate to the serious humiliation that shitting in public involves. I myself have seen long lines - sometimes involving waits of over an hour - in front of the few existing public toilets in Indian cities. The mixing of cooking water, washing water and shit-bearing water creates a fertile ground for many life-threatening disease conditions. At the same time the lack of toilets in schools has been identified as one of the main reasons girls abstain from school. WTO is at the avantgarde of what famous anthropologist and World Bank advisor Arjun Appadurai calls "the politics of shit" and I hope that many betterplacers will support its work.

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