Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria

Dear Supporters, Friends and Family of Serendipity,

Open defecation has been a terrible practice in our communities as we informed you in our last report and thus led to our conducting a workshop “Making Our Schools WASH Friendly”. The workshop was a one day event where we taught 6 schools we have done projects on provision of access to water, toilets and COVID 19 relief materials through your kind donations.

The schools that attended the workshop were Government Girls Secondary School Tarauni, Millenium Primary and Secondary Schools, Bawo Road, Engineer Bashir Karaye primary and Secondary School, Sabon Gari Gadan Primary School, Salha Academy and Persons living with disability primary school.

The schools were taught on how to make their schools WASH friendly using the basic guidelines set out in the Hygiene Improvement Programme started by USAID for School Directors, Teachers, Parents (PTA) and other stakeholders. The schedule of programme is based on why WASH matters, Why WASH is important in schools, Discovering the WASH situation in Schools, Understanding the WASH problem, How to make our schools WASH Friendly and the 13 Basic steps to making our Schools WASH Friendly.

Now with your kind donations, we are able to do this workshop successfully and in six months time, WASH Evaluators and Specialists will visit the schools to evaluate the schools and award the schools that have taken to heart and implemented all what they have been taught.

We sincerely thank you for the support your have shown to us that our schools become WASH Friendly through this training and NOW we can be assured that open defecation practices are reduced and good handwashing and hygiene practices are adopted!

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Yours Faithfully 

Samirah Faruk

Links:

• Workshop on WASH
• Video on the workshop

Dear Supporters, Friends and Family of Serendipity,

Open defecation has been a terrible practice in our communities and this led to a research conducted by UNICEF where our country Nigeria was ranked amongst the top ten in open defecation practices in 2018 which leads to our waters getting contaminated, low hygiene practices and susceptibility to diarrhea, cholera and dysentry; now with the coming of the pandemic the situation has worsened.

Sadly open defecation is still practiced and this mainly due to lack of access to limited or no good sanitation facilities such as Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines in schools, hospitals, public places and thus have to contend with open defecation.

Part of our goal is to ensure that schools in our communities have access to good sanitation facilities hence the start of our many projects on sanitation for our children have started with S.Gadan primary and secondary school in Ungogo Local Government Council in Kano where 2 new Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines were built in addition to the existing two toilets built by the local governing council for a population of 2500 students. 

Now with your kind donations, we were able to build two new VIP toilets to add to the existing ones and reduce the inadequacies of sanitation facilities.

We sincerely thank you for the support your have shown to us that our children in schools stop open defecation and especially our girls have their dignity restored, not susceptible to harrassment, violence, rape and stay in school instead of at home because of lack of sanitation facilities. Now they are SAFE!!!

Further help and support is needed to ensure that we provide more sanitation facilities and access to water in our schools, hospitals and communities.

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Yours Faithfully 

Abubakar Sadiq    

Links:

• Dignity
• Dignity