Promotion of Wash Infrastructure in Government Schools (AWARE-II)

Objectives:

• Providing Child Friendly WASH Infrastructure in Schools and ensuring that the same is maintained well for the benefit of the children.
• Increase the WASH awareness levels amongst the children and involve them actively in achieving behavioural change.
• Make school children a medium to take awareness and behavioural change into their families and communities.

Achievements :

• Constructed / renovated of 10toilets, 8 urinals, (separately for boys and girls and CWSN toilets).
• 3 handwashing platforms, provision for safe disposal of sanitary napkins in 3 schools.
• Completely resolved 25-30 regular children absentees due to WASH-related diseases.
• Strengthened local communities’ participation in improved WASH management.
• 25-30 children regularly absent from classes because of WASH related diseases have been completely eradicated.

Activities :

• Established WASH Clubs in all three schools continuously engaging to take up creative activities reinforcing proper understanding of responsible WASH behaviors.
• VO / SHG members/Public/HM/ Teacher at large are motivated to make efforts in the protection of the Schools’ WASH infrastructure.
• The task force committees are formed with members from GPs, VO representatives, SMC representatives, and HMs/Teachers.
• The responsibility of the task force is to ensure that the WASH infrastructure created in the schools is well maintained.
• Children and community members were effectively engaged in spreading the information on Hand washing, toilet usage,general hygiene, menstrual hygiene
  and COVID preventives in their families and neighbourhood.
• WASH awareness programmes may not take place specifically in the schools as well as at the community level.