Program to Achieve Sanitation & Hygiene in Schools Launched

A program to Improve and achieve sanitation and sanitation and hygiene in schools, was officially launched in Kampala at Mbogo Muslim Primary School.

The programme, supported by UNICEF Uganda and the Kampala Capital City Authority, (KCCA), aims to Improve on the hygiene and sanitation in schools.

According to the project Cordinator, Ibrahim Kibaire, the project will help teach students in schools to wash hands, keep hygiene, but also keep away diseases that come with poor sanitation and hygiene.

They have donated soap to Ka Ramona community.

He revealed thy the project has started this term (1st term) and it will take other three months.

He asked on students to stay with the good sanitation behaviors, even outside school.

“A lot of diseases affecting students are being affected by the toilets, however the impact of I wash you wash has positively impacted and helped on this. We call upon other partners to help promote this project, let’s make it a policy,” he said.

He further revealed that many students mostly girls reported cases of infections due to poor hygiene, however, this has drastically reduced.

At the same launch, students donated, soap for their colleagues in Karamoja.

Meeting the national WASH in Schools standards is critical to children staying in school, performing well in school and keeping healthy and well, among other benefits.

The practice of handwashing with soap and clean water can reduce diarrhea by around 40 per cent among young children, something that is urgently required considering diarrhea is presently the third largest killer of young children in Uganda with around 30 children dying from it every day across the country, Dr. Doreen Mulenga, UNICEF’s Representative in Uganda, was quoted in 2022.