Rural Mozambican Schools Practice Sanitation

1.500 children learning and promoting good hygienic practices

Status

Needs funding

Focus area

Project category

Location

Ofensiva, Nahipa
Monapo District, Mozambique

Description
Goals
Sustainability

The schools and the preschools in 3 villages in the Monapo District will benefit from a Water and sanitation demonstration point consisting of a rain-water collecting tank with a rope-pump, improved latrines, handwashing facilities and "safe drinking-water" points mounted with water filters.
The children will learn and practice the importance of good hygienic practices and the places will serve as demonstrations-facilities for trainings held for 1.500 people from the surrounding communities.

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Target benchmarks

6 functioning water systems
18 functioning sanitation systems
30 functioning hygiene facilities
1500 persons with access to improved water for 10 years
1500 persons with access to improved sanitation for 10 years
3000 persons who receive training / education per year

The goal is to lower the risk of water-born diseases among 1.500 children attending school/preschool in the rural Northern Mozambique and to spread information. They will become promotors of good hyginic practices, via cultural performances explain about the importance and encouraging the community to seek for available solution to improve household water and sanitation facilities.
In the process 12 local people will be trained in the construction and maintenance of local sanitation facilities.

Target benchmarks

6 functioning water systems
18 functioning sanitation systems
30 functioning hygiene facilities
1500 persons with access to improved water for 10 years
1500 persons with access to improved sanitation for 10 years
3000 persons who receive training / education per year

Goals overview

6 water tanks with rope-pumps for the 3 schools and 3 pre-sc
18 VIP latrines and 30 tippy-taps for hand-washing
15 water containters with filters (30 liters)
1.500 children use hygienic facilities during school hours a
12 local "brick-layers" trained

The rope pump is produced in the area and is made with locally available materials. This also makes it easier to secure the maintanance.
The filters and water containers will need frequent cleaning and these tasks will be done by a teachers and a rotating group of children, who will learn at the same time.
The schools will form a sanitation comittee consisting of teachers, parents and representatives of the pupils (even if the are quite young), they will inspect the facilities and secure the maintanance and act if something is going wrong. ADPP the implementing organisation have a long time commitment in the area and a system of regular meetings with community leaders and will also keep being updating for.
The construction of other tanks or wells can be made by local trained water-tecnicians.
The culture group at the schools/pre-school with their teachers will be trained by professionals and will learn to structure the way educational messages can be put forward. In particular the pre-school teachers being from the village are much involved in general community development and they are expected to be able to continue involving the children and youngsters in transmitting message via plays, dancing and singing.

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