Access to soap and water at the household level did not seem a barrier for the uptake of HWWS but continuous access to these might be a challenge at schools.
"He had a few challenges initially," said Geraldine Thompson, the school's headmistress, "because he had not been challenged at school the way we challenge students here".
She came to see their challenges at school as inseparable from their experience with poverty, difficulties at home, and related health issues, both physical and emotional.
There are lots of strategies for managing emotions, many of which can be adopted by students facing stressful challenges at school.
Mulligan, who used a wheelchair to move around the campus but is able to walk when not traveling long distances, says the chair did pose some challenges at school, such as in the tight spaces of research labs.
Intellectually advanced for his age, he was not academically challenged at school and misbehaved in class.
"Girls face extra challenges at school and sometimes lack self-confidence.
Perhaps there are generalist specialists assigned to students who have additional challenges at school?
That can be a challenge at a school where 56 percent of the students receive free or reduced-price lunches (down from 68 percent in 2005) and tickets to the Winter Gala run $65.
Realizing that their high number of out-of-town guests would make supporting local businesses through their registry next to impossible, Allen went on to pursue the challenge at business school at Fordham.
