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From WASH clubs to total sanitation - School sanitation story from Pakistan

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Initially, the project team trained teachers at the targeted schools to raise awareness on WASH issues and to provide tools for starting and coordinating WASH clubs. The teachers were encouraged by project staff to start sensitization campaigns at their schools and identified students to become active members of the clubs. Occasions like World Toilet Day and Global Handwashing Day, with specific events held on these days, helped to engage the youth and raise awareness for WASH.

The WASH clubs are run in both boys and girls schools. After the clubs were set up, they began with internal discussions and trainings, in order to familiarize the group more in depth with WASH topics. PATS goes beyond traditional CLTS (Community Led Total Sanitation) approaches and takes a holistic view on sanitation, incl. waste disposal. The teaching material provided by the project also included topics that were commonly neglected: A local student member said, "Menstrual hygiene was never discussed in school and at home for cultural reasons, but this project cared to sensitize us also on menstrual hygiene to ensure that we live a healthy life with dignity“dignity.“

After this initial forming phase, the WASH clubs begin with activities in their school. They ensure availability of soap and MHM material (re-usable, locally available cloth) „to create an ideal environment, where youth can nurture ideas for change“, as a visitor of the project described. In addition to these ongoing tasks and keeping attention to WASH high, the clubs also organise special events inside their schools. This includes assessing sanitation facilities in the schools, proposing improvements (no-subsidy approach) and mobilizing people from the communities to implement the improvements, with the help of the project team.

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