UNICEF: School program in Pakistan encourages latrine use

The School-Led Total Sanitation project was piloted by UNICEF in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in mid-2007. Drawing from experience gathered by UNICEF and its partners, the programme initiates change by developing useful health and hygiene skills in school to encourage life-long positive habits.

"With this approach, we use teachers and children as entry points into the communities," explains UNICEF Water and Sanitation Officer Victor Kinyanjui. "The idea is that children replicate sanitation and hygiene practices learnt at school into their families, and also advocate for the use of latrines. Teachers are also real opinion leaders, as they are educated and respected. People listen to them."

During the past two years, nearly 4,500 primary school teachers were trained, and more than 316,000 students received instruction, in school sanitation and hygiene education.

To read the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/pakistan_43052.html

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• Pakistan
• latrines
• health
• Kashmir

[FootinMouthDisease]

Thanks for posting this and showing how the small things we take for granted, are so important in remote areas of our global community.

[islamforever08]

Mashallah thankyou for uploading this i will appreaciate next time i need the toilet