G-1343

Water & Sanitation

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Project Description

Region: Asia

Country: India

Location: Madurai, Theni, Pudukotta

Total Budget: $65,000

Areas of Focus: Water, sanitation and hygiene, Basic education and literacy



PROJECT TITLE

WinS (WASH in School)

LOCATION : Various Schools in the revenue districts Karur, Trichy, Madurai, Dindigul, Theni, Pudukottai, Ariyalur and Perambalur

OBJECTIVE

Implementing WinS (WASH in Schools) program in various government schools located in District 3000 which

- Provides a healthy and protective school environment minimizing the risk of disease.

- Promotes equity by ensuring that all children have access to WASH facilities, help children to reach their full potential. This includes the provisions of separate toilets for boys and girls.

- Discourages the habit of open defecation in the community by encouraging children to insist their family members for a toilet in their homes.

- Supports school nutrition. The simple act of washing hands with soap before eating the mid-day meal at school assists in breaking disease transmission routes.

- Encourages pride and commitment to school in the children and their communities.

COST

WinS implementation in 1 School with 250 Students - 6,500$

Total Number of Schools per Global Grant Project - 10

Total Project Cost - 65,000$

FUNDING

Host Partner DDF - 5,000$

International Partner DDF - 20,000$

Host Club CASH - 10,000$

TRF Match - 30,000$

TIME FOR COMPLETION : Before Dec 2017

DESCRIPTION

In a recent survey conducted by High Court of Madras the government schools in Tamil Nadu requires 141000 toilets are required at the rate of 20 students per one toilet, but only 66610 toilets are available. Many of the existing toilets are not in usable conditions. In this condition, the hygiene behavior among children studying these schools also not improving.

WinS (WASH in schools ) helps fulfill the universal right to education and health and meets its role in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, thereby increasing access to primary education, reducing child mortality, advancing gender equality and meeting targets for improving water, sanitation and hygiene.

Rotary India WinS program is a pan India campaign initiated by Rotary in India under the leadership of TRF Trustee & past Rotary International Director Sushil Gupta as its Chairman, in support of the national campaign "Swachh Bharat : Swachh Vidyalaya" launched by HRD Ministry under "Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan" initiated by Indian Prime Minister. A key feature of the campaign is to ensure that government schools in India have a set of functioning and well maintained water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.

It aims to improve the curriculum and teaching methods while promoting hygiene practices and community ownership of water and sanitation facilities within schools. It improves children's Health, school enrolment, attendance and retention and paves the way for new generation of healthy children.

The technical components include drinking water, hand washing, toilet and soap facilities in the school compound for use by children and teachers.

Human Development Components : The Human Development components are the activities that promote conditions within the school and the practices of children that help to prevent water, hygiene and sanitation related diseases.

Key Elements of WinS : Construction & Renovation : up gradation of Sanitation facilities in schools including the construction of child friendly separate toilets for boys and girls wherever required and repairs of existing sanitation facilities.

Group Hand Washing : Sufficient group hand washing facilities with soap for students wherein groups of 10-12 students can wash hands at the same time. Menstrual Hygiene

Management(MHM): The facilities including soup, adequate and private space for changing and disposal of menstrual waste, including incinerator and dust bins. Education sessions & training for teachers to impact education to adolescent girls on MHM.

Safe Drinking Water : Daily provisions of safe drinking water and adequate water for hand washing.

Cleaning Materials : Provisions of regular supply of cleaning materials, like soap, brooms, brushes, buckets etc to ensure that the WASH facilities are clean.

Maintenance : Activities for staff & school children to promote the correct use & maintenance of facilities.

Messages : Messages integrated in regular curriculum through textbooks, supplementary reading materials, activity based learning methodologies, messages during morning assembly sessions etc.

Monitoring : Instituting of child cabinet / school management committee(SMC) to lead WASH initiative.

Awareness : Awareness amongst teachers, MC, Panchayat, etc for effective facilitation, financing, managing and monitoring of WinS program.

What we do?

Group Hand Washing : Group hand washing is a path breaking innovation that can potentially improve the education and health outcomes of 110 million children who have mid-day meal daily, across India. Group hand washing ensures that all children wash hands in groups, stand facing each other, exchange positive message, make eye to eye contact and enjoy the process. As powerful agents of behavioral change, children can take lessons, they have learned at school, back home to teach their parents, siblings and elders on good hygiene behavior such as hand washing with soap. The hand washing stations are simple, scalable and sustainable and rely on usage of minimum water, while the facilities are developed using local materials.

Fast Facts about Hand Washing : Washing hands with soap at two critical times

- After using the toilet and before eating food

- Reduces the incidence of diarrhea by an average of 30 per cent.

METHOD

Rotary District 3000 will implement WinS program in various government schools. Committee of Rotarians, Parents and Teachers will continue implementing the WinS program to make it sustainable.

OUTCOME

- Healthy and protective school environment and minimizing the risk of disease.

- All children have access to WASH facilities, and so that the children will reach their full protection.

- Stop the habit of open defecation in the community by encouraging children to insist their family members for a toilet in their homes.

- Supports school nutrition and breaks disease transmission routes.

- The children will be Pride in commitment.

FUNDING

We expect minimum DDF of US$20,000 per global project from International Partner. If International Partner contributes more DDF, it will help to increase project size. Host will arrange funds as DDF or as CASH as much as possible to make the project size bigger and to implement WinS in maximum number of schools.

Primary Host Partner

District: 3000

Rotary Club of: Karur Texcity

Primary Contact: Gopalakrishnan palanisamy

Email: gopskarur@hotmail.com

Primary International Partner

District: 5340

Rotary Club of: Chula Vista

Primary Contact: Eric Rimmele

Email: erimmele@socalartisanfoods.com

Project Status

Dropped
This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped.

Project listed for the 2017-18 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Karur Texcity (3000)

27-Apr-17

$10,000

$5,000

$15,000

Remaining Amount to Raise

Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution

$26,667

-

$26,667

Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation

$18,333

$5,000

$23,333

Total

$65,000

Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries

27-Apr-17

by Gopalakrishnan palanisamy

System Entry: Creation of project page.

2-Sep-18

System Entry

System Entry: Project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.

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