Toilets & Water for school children, rural India

Thanks to all your support, the project continues to work with 20 schools for maintenance of hygeine and sanitaion facilities. As always dealing with behavior change is the most challenging issues. Therefore we have conducted workshops on behaviour change and management for students to address issues related to personal and environmental hygiene. The objective of the workshop was to facilitate change in the behaviour of the students and to teach them the importance of hygiene, discipline and ill effects of bad behaviour through activities and role play.

Activities focussing on the necessity of following rules in everyday life and a role play focussing on the importance of body language and good manners were also performed by the staff. At the end the students were made to recap the learnings from the session and henceforth will be mindful of their behaviour in classrooms and in public places.  An activity to express ones feeling through writing and emotions was conducted for the students to understand the causes of behavioural patterns among the students and gain clarity of their deep seated beliefs.

Awareness sessions were conducted in all the project schools on menstrual hygiene.  The students were taken through a very structured speech on self confidence, fun activities to engage the students, awareness speech on menstrual hygiene with video clips, quiz on awareness speech, self-defense tips and  sanitation kit distribution.