By Matthias Saladin | Project leader
We wanted to let you know about exciting developments regarding our project in 40 schools in Tiquipaya (Bolivia). As we reported earlier, the project has been going really well, with teachers, kids and parents learning many new ways on how to prevent diseases and improve quality of live at schools as well as at home. Over the past two years, we reached more than 10,000 kids and trained more than 500 teachers, thus significantly improving living and learning conditions of 40 schools in the municipality of Tiquipaya.
The project has been received well by beneficiaries, but also by authorities of the municipality and the Ministry of Education at district level. Given that this project directly improves health status of children, we are now talking to a major NGO in Bolivia to bring this intervention to larger scale. We currently can not give away names, but we are preparing an external evaluation for the project for spring 2014, and we are identifying additional areas where the next phase of the project can be implemented.
The positive impact of the project can be observed every day at the project schools and families. Safe drinking water is available to all kids, and hygiene practices such as hand washing have improved drastically. As Trifonia Ricaldi, a teacher in one of the schools said: "My kids no longer miss classes because of stomach problems or pains." Well, we think that this is significant, and we want to let more people benefit from these simple solutions for saving lives.
On behalf of the whole project team, I want to thank you very much for being part of this initiative. We are sure that in 2014, we can take this project to a next level, and hope that you want to join us in this journey.
Thankfully,
Matthias Saladin
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