Notes and News - October 2007 - English

Year of publication: 2007

The theme of this issue is Child and Youth Participation in WASH in Schools, and includes interesting contributions from Ethiopia and Uganda as well as several smaller news items.

The article on “Considerations on children’s hygiene clubs and other ways of active participation”, describes why participation is important and what can be done to enhance youth and child participation for WASH in schools. UNICEF Ethiopia describe how they assessed what children really want for WASH in schools. A secondary school girl from Uganda has written an essay on how she and her peers did undertake action to make their school and community hygienic. Last but not least, news from around the world shows how many children, adults and organisations are working on the improvement of WASH conditions in schools.

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