WASH In School

Funded By Water Aid

Improvement of WASH services in government schools of district Rajanpur.

The primary objective of this programme is to change the life of 10500 students of 120

government schools of district Rajanpur in year 2015 - 16 by delivering water, sanitation and

hygiene education in schools to improve health and education as well as infrastructure

development. The overall program scope is to deliver immediate and long term transformational

change; changing lives of students and influencing policies and practices at district as well as

provincial and national level.

The intention of school WASH approach is to contribute with national and international WASH

sector partners for MDG’s. WASH in school also improve attendance, health and cognitive

development, increases girls’ participation, establishes positive hygiene behaviors, provide the

opportunity for better WASH practices in schools and families and addresses issues of inequity

and exclusion.

The project purpose entail on four key objectives:

1. To implement water and sanitation improvement Program for 10500 children in 120 Schools of 4 UC’s of Tehsil Jampur by January 2017.

2. To promote hygienic behavior and good hygienic practices including hand washing, usage of latrine and menstrual hygiene management among 10500 children in 120 Schools by January 2017.

3. To improve capacity of relevant stakeholders including local education department, SMCs, PTCs and WASH clubs to sustain the WASH facilities in schools by January 2017.

4. To undertake lobbying and advocacy with relevant stakeholders for highlighting and addressing WASH Issues in school of district Rajanpur by January 2017.

The project was currently implementing in 4 targeted Union Councils (tattar wala, Rindhn, Kotla

Deewan and Kot tahir) of tehsil Jampur and District Rajanpur.

Project Key Activities and Achievements

• Profiling and technical assessment of 120 schools of targeted area and develop a

database with all relevant information.

• Rehabilitation and construction of new latrines (“4 MHM, 9 twin and 10 disable friendly

newly construction” “211 existence latrines rehabilitation”.)

• Establishing of 67 hand washing places in 67 schools along with pre-post water

surveillance tests.

• Installation of 48 new hand-pumps in schools and 12 are in process.

• Installation of dust bins in 64 schools and 56 are in process.

• Formation of WASH club in 115 schools and training to WASH club members and

teachers on role and responsibilities.

• WASH club meeting 520 have been conducted till now.

• 386 health and hygiene session have been delivered and 80 H&H kits placed (one each

school).

• 104 MHM session delivered to adolescent girls.

• Two teacher training conducted around MHM issues conducted with 28 different school

teachers and provided MHM kit for schools.

• MHM manual, story book, WASH club manual and flip chart developed as a IEC

substantial.

• 67 O&M training delivered to school teacher, WASH club members & SMC members

and provided O&M kits.

• 10 international WASH days celebrated till now (hand washing day, world toilet day,

MHM day and world water day).

• 64 SMC meeting conducted and sensitized members about their role and responsibilities

and consecutively involve them to monitor the school WASH infrastructure and other

WASH related issues.

• 08 formal consultative meeting have been conducted with tehsil and district level

authorities to highlight the WASH related issues in schools.

• Traffic light study have been conducted to find out the WASH issues in school on district

level and share the finding with district and tehsil level authorities through consultative

meetings.

Key success

Enrollment status improved MAP implantation schools (Tehsil government acknowledged

through letter).

Format has developed by EDO for WASH infrastructure monitoring and incorporated in

AEOs schedule.

School Children constructed latrines in their houses after sanitization through health &

hygiene session conducted by MAP (more then 20).

NSB fund utilized for WASH services improvement in schools.

SMCs are sensitized about their role and responsibilities and now SMCs are active with

school management.

Total Budget: Rs.34649037

Case Studies

1. Govt. Primary School Basti Waja where only hygiene promotional and capacity building

activities are being implemented. WinS team organized couple of meetings with SMC

and teachers to motivate them to focus on WASH issues in their school. This school

does not have even a single latrine before intervene the project, Team sensitized the

SMC members and teachers about WASH merits and demerits and they agreed to

construct the latrine but availability of budget was an obstacle. When Punjab

government approved Non Salary Budget (NSB) for schools, school management

constructed two new latrines in school on priority basis. Annual budget are usually

supposed to be spent on white wash, principal room renovation, repairing of furniture’s

and plantation purposes etc, but project intended the school custodians to avoid the

open defecation and importance of latrine.

2. A 15 year old Mushtaq Ahmed belongs to a poor family and living with parents along

with 5 brothers, 1 sister and grandmother in basti sumandri. He is studying in

government high school basti sumandri in class 6th. His father is small village shop

keeper and living in deprived condition.

Hope for Change One day I was in my class room my WASH club teacher suggested to our

class that Muslim Aid team wants to orient you about Health & Hygiene. I had bit idea about

the WASH club their work and activities but I could not get chance to participate in any

session, so it was my first time. One person form Muslim Aid started orientation about health

& hygiene, usage of latrines, hand washing and many other good messages with showing

pictorial chart of each message. It was a glimpse to think about the importance of latrine

in my life. My concentration had developed about good hygiene practices and then I

noticed the wall painting which were painted by MAP and I was just steering on that cartoon

hygiene messages which I never noticed before. I felt some one behind me and turn around

then I have seen that My grandmother was behind me and asked me with wonder that what

I am look at then I told whole story of today’s activity on the way back to home and told

about all the messages which I got form MAP team. When I get back to home then I decided that today I will discuss the availability of latrine

within our house compound with my father and my grandmother promise me to support

me in this concern. At night I discussed the matter with my father along with whole story of

today’s school activity. My father smiles and said that from beginning we are using open

defecation and it’s not a serious matter. He told that it is just to spoil the money which I

cannot afford. Then I replicated all the messages to all my family which I got form MAP team

and told about the low cost latrine preparation and then my grandmother also added that

how it is embarrassing for females to use open defecation so it is the time to change our bed

habits and norms after a long discussion of my father with my grandmother and mother he

agreed to construct latrine. I was really pleased to share all this story to MAP team and

WASH club fiends. For some days persistently remind to my father about his promise and a

day came when we have construct latrine in our house. It’s my ambition to make safe and

clean my home, school and village.

“It’s just need a little hope that this won’t forever that thing will change”.

Activity Pictures

World Water Day Celebration

Disable Friendly Latrine

Hand pump installation