Community Hygiene And Sanitation
spimateEmploy a community based Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation strategy(CBPHSS)methodology to train community hygiene promoters who will be drawn from each village in Community CBPHSS groups will be trained to work with the community by providing organized trainings ,engaging children in schools , and distribution educational materials, even when people do have knowledge of good hygiene behaviour, they lack the soap, safe water and washing facilities they need to make positive changes to protect themselves and their community.
Sanitation
Without improved sanitation –people have no choice but to use inadequate communal latrines or to practise open defecation. For women and girls, finding a place to go to the toilet outside, often having to wait until the cover of darkness, can leave them vulnerable to abuse and sexual assault.
In the immediate environment, exposed faecal matter will be transferred back into people’s food and water resources, helping to spread serious diseases such as cholera. Beyond the community, the lack of effective waste disposal or sewerage systems can contaminate ecosystems and contribute to disease pandemics.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WASH AND EDUCATION
Many children in low-income communities with no access to WASH are unable to attend class because they are sick with a diarrhoeal disease or, particularly in the case of girls in low income communities, because they have to spend large parts of each day fetching water for their family.
For adolescent girls, the presence of a safe water supply and clean, functioning, private toilet facilities can be the difference between dropping out and getting an education. Furthermore, hygiene education at school can begin a lifetime of better health for all children.
A holistic approach to Hygiene and sanitation that goes hand in hand with improvements in the personal and community hygiene of a region. It involves not only investing in the infrastructure like piping, toilets and taps and in improving maintenance of the infrastructure but also comprises bringing about behavioral change in the people to voluntarily adopt better hygienic practices that will improve their collective health.
