An estimated 272m school days are missed every year around the year due to diarrhoea. Goodluck, a student in rural Tanzania, is trying to tackle this in his own school and community by becoming an advocate for handwashing
In rural Tanzania, 48 per cent of people have access to clean drinking water.
In schools, there is often only one toilet for more than 200 pupils and very few have functioning handwashing facilities. Poor sanitation means children fall ill, which can be expensive for families to treat and also means they miss out on schooling. It’s a problem around the world: according to the Global Handwashing Partnership, 272m school days are missed every year due to diarrhoea.The quality, independent magazine that focuses on progress and possibility
Volunteers from sustainable development charity Raleigh International have been working with people in rural Tanzania to take action on the issue. They have established student-led school water and sanitation clubs – also known as SWASH clubs. In the village of Peluhanda, 14-year-old Goodluck is the chairman of his school’s SWASH club: a group of 20 pupils who advocate for improved water sanitation practices in their school and elsewhere in the community.
Goodluck said: “In the morning before school I fill all the tippy taps [a handwashing…
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