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"It is very encouraging to know that the 116 girls and boys at Ratu Meli Memorial School will have access to clean water, proper child friendly sanitation and hygiene facilities while pursuing their studies in school," Australian High Commission First Secretary Pamela Larkin told guests at the handover event at Ratu Meli Memorial School on Friday 16 May.
It calls on decision-makers to increase investments and on concerned stakeholders to plan and act in cooperation – so that all children go to a school with child-friendly water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.
The report, Raising Clean Hands: Advancing Learning, Health and Participation through WASH in Schools, is a call to action for policymakers, school administrators, communities and parents to make sure that all children go to a school with child-friendly water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.
UNICEF is also introducing life skills and hygiene education, child-friendly school principles and counseling.
To evaluate the impact of implementing a simple, user-friendly eLearning module on hand hygiene (HH) compliance and infection rates.
Stanbic Bank's contribution will help to support the scaling up of affordable, good quality, girl and child friendly, sustainable school water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities in three schools in Temeke district, in Dar es Salaam.
It promotes better health and hygiene through a child-friendly curriculum that focuses on life skills, community service activities and peer education.
Board members toured classrooms the school's and its improved water and sanitation facilities – a key part of the hygiene education that child-friendly schools promote.
UNICEF is also working to meet a second target of ensuring that all schools have adequate child-friendly water and sanitation facilities and hygiene education programmes.
Because when you look at the girl friendly toilets and the issue of menstrual hygiene, that means this needs to be supported by the school development committees and the school head.
