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Promoting healthy environments with improved access to water and basic sanitation services
The project is designed to overcome the critical barriers that prevent children from fulfilling their educational potential as a direct result of being in an unsafe and unhealthy school environment. Promoting behavioral change by strengthening knowledge, attitudes and practices of hygiene and sanitation also complements the good nutritional practices at the family level of school children, teachers and parents participating in the Nourishing the Future project. The synergy of both initiatives gives added value to the interventions with strategic partners and allies, and the good relationship with municipal authorities and civil society generates trust and good local governance.
Girls
Boys
Indirects
The problems caused by the lack of basic infrastructure in school facilities, poor hygiene practices, poor access to drinking water and inadequate sanitation conditions, affect the welfare of children living in conditions of exclusion, poverty and gender inequality.
According to the Pan American Health Organization -PAHO-, many of the diseases in Guatemala, mainly among the child population, such as diarrhea, hepatitis, typhoid and cholera, are of water origin; that is, they appear as a consequence of the consumption of water of poor sanitary quality.
Basic sanitation problems (such as inadequate disposal of human waste, poor management of domestic and industrial waste, stagnant domestic wastewater, etc.) also cause health problems in children.
Change the hygiene and sanitation practices of primary school children to improve their education. The project provides them with support to overcome the critical barriers of an unhealthy and unsafe environment, with a gender focus. It promotes behavioral change by strengthening knowledge, attitudes and hygiene and sanitation practices. It also complements the good nutritional practices of school children, teachers and parents participating in the Nourishing the Future project. The synergy of both initiatives gives added value to both interventions, with strategic partners and allies, as well as to the good relationship with municipal authorities and civil society. Between the two, trust and good local governance are generated.
27 schools, with an equal number of parents’ organizations. In total, there will be 526 teachers and 9,000 students, of which 4,320 are girls and 4,680 are boys, who will have a better understanding of the importance of proper water use and safe sanitation.
In addition, there will be 70,000 people participating indirectly, residents of San Martin Jilotepeque, San Juan Comalapa and Zone 3, Guatemala City. These people will be impacted with key messages through the media and special events.
CARE implements the project in collaboration with the Ministries of Health, Education and Agriculture, the Secretary of Food and Nutritional Security -SESAN-, and the local governments of San Martín Jilotepeque and San Juan Comalapa in Chimaltenango and also in schools in zone 3, in Guatemala City.
The Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala -USAC-, through the Faculties of Agronomy and Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, also contributed to the project.
March 2018 to February 2021. Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid -JOA.
