Better WASH for Healthy Nepal

ECCA conducted Refresher Training on Nature Club management and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) from November 22 - December 2, 2017. Nature clubs from 20 schools of Lalitpur and Kavre districts took part in the training that brought together newly elected nature club representatives to focus on different issues of water, sanitation and hygiene.

All the participating nature clubs have been supported by ECCA to work in school and community level for safe drinking water, sanitation and environmental issues. They were also provided chlorine solution producing WATA device (along with its training), by the help of which they were able to produce chlorine solution by themselves and use it in their school and adjoining community. Thus, this training also proved to be an opportunity to learn the chlorination method for new nature club members.

"The training was really interesting. Different people have different ideas and if we work in co-operation, we can include those ideas and bring better results", said Grishma, from St. Paul Nature lub. "We also received a lot of ideas on sustaining our nature clubs, so I am very happy."

The nature club members were also accompained by their teacher. "Most of the people in our community are still ignorant about WASH issues. For example, adopting purification method to drink water is not always a prioritized issue", said one of the teachers. "Hence, these kind of program done by ECCA bring frequent reminder and encouragement for our students to raise WASH related issues in their community."

The participants also made action plans to turn their ideas into action. The training ended with commitments from the participants to work together.

Thank you for your support for helping ECCA in its mission of providing safe drinking water access to Nepalese communities.