Girls Toilet Project : Bal Shiksha Secondary School, Banke

Description

Currently, 2.5 billion people globally don’t have access to improved sanitation facilities – meaning more people have access to mobile phones than to toilets. Along with health issues presented by lack of proper toilet facilities, many girls don’t attend school due to their periods if there is no toilet. The goal of this toilet project was to ensure that each one of the schools that we support has adequate toilets to ensure that everyone can go to school and stay healthy along the way. Lack of access to sanitation creates a host of health problems, making it easier for diseases to spread, infecting drinking water and contributing to undernourishment and poverty. A child dies every 20 seconds because of poor sanitation, according to the U.N. It can also impact future economic opportunities because lack of sanitation can negatively affect school attendance, especially for girls. In 2013, 1,000 children died every day due to diarrheal disease because of poor sanitation. In order to protect school-going children from poor sanitation, the concept of a toilet project was developed in a Nepalese School at Shree Bal Shiksha Secondary School, Kohalpur-13 Bariya, Banke. The Rotary Club of Kathmandu in coordination with Social Awareness Concerned Forum (SAC), the school management committee is working on construction of toilet block with financial support from the Rotary District 3292 and the local government. This project will benefit 385 students as of now among which 205 are girls and 185 are boys and the local community.

Project Status

Funding Type

District Grant Funded

Club Information

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