To ensure that water and sanitation services are sustainable in schools and health centers Toilet For People Honduras treats these institutions as part of the community at large.
Engage local leaders and organizations to build handwashing stations and bathrooms in schools and health centers.
Water For People is reconsidering the way school programming is implemented. Programs focused on schools tend to have the biggest sustainability challenges.
Water For People supports local and national efforts in technical advice to bring water and sanitation services to schools and health centers called SWASH+ projects. The technical proposal seeks to create favorable conditions so that schoolchildren and the entire educational community can exercise good practices. individual and collective hygiene, friendly to health and the environment.
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Water For People Honduras treats schools as part of the broader community. Engage local leaders and organizations to build handwashing stations and bathrooms in schools and health centers.
Each school-based intervention is combined with community-based solutions and education to help ensure that good hygiene practices learned in schools are reinforced at home. The responsibility for project implementation, financing and maintenance of the school water and sanitation system lies with the community and local government, thus easing the burden on often overwhelmed and underfunded schools. In areas where water and sanitation infrastructure already exists, Water For People Honduras works with the community to reinforce health and hygiene education messages and system management.
In some cases, instead of directly managing the construction of water supplies, bathrooms, and handwashing stations for schools, Water For People Honduras directs funds (usually supplemented by municipal government funds) to parent-teacher associations so that manage them. Water For People Honduras also provides training and mentoring on topics such as the basics of financial management and project administration. These skills translate into tools that community members can continue to use as they develop their communities.