IMPROVING SANITATION
Improved sanitation is one of the most effective ways of creating health awareness. The provision of these amenities will increase school attendance rates and promote gender equality. Uninterrupted educational learning will empower girls and end the poverty cycle in the community.
Digging Well organises seminars and provides hygienic materials on a healthy lifestyle.
We also provide training on how to maintain newly built toilets.
We are improving the healthy lifestyle and unlocking the human potential of the poor communities across Africa
FINDINGS ON IMPROVING SANITATION
3 in 10 schools – or 29 per cent – do not have a basic drinking water service, impacting 546 million schoolchildren. (UNICEF, 2021)
In sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania, fewer than half of schools had a basic sanitation service. (UNICEF, 2021)
539 million children lacked a basic sanitation service at their school, including 299 million whose schools had improved facilities that were not single-sex or not usable, and 240 million whose schools still had no sanitation service. (UNICEF, 2021)
Coverage of basic sanitation services ranged from 47% in low-income countries to 100% in high-income countries. (UNICEF, 2021)
One-third of children without basic sanitation services at their school lived in LDCs, and 3 out of 5 lived in fragile contexts. (UNICEF, 2021)
Achieving universal access (99%) to basic sanitation services in schools by 2030 would require a 3x increase in the current rate of progress (over 100x increase in LDCs and 50x increase in fragile contexts). (UNICEF, 2021)
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