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Right now, there are 3.5 billion people still living without safe toilets. 419 million people still practice ‘open defecation’. In these situations, diseases spread, killing 1,000 children under five every single day. This global crisis poses a threat to nature and everyone’s health, particularly women, girls, and other vulnerable groups.
We need your actions – however small – will help improve toilets and sanitation systems and protect children's health, education, and nature. We are now counting down to 2030, with just seven years left to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) – safe toilets and water for all by 2030.
Today, the world is seriously off track. We need to work five times faster on sanitation.
Your Support We ConnectThe School Toilet Project. Why School Toilets?
Every Girl Deserves an Education, a girl is not a statistic or a piece of property. She's a child who deserves a future. Let's talk about Periods; Girls have to drop out of school, simply because they start having their periods and due to no toilets and bad toilets in the schools.
Having toilets and water is a basic necessity in schools; however, it is not available in many rural schools in Bharatpur Rajasthan! Due to this, children are irregular in school and eventually drop out. This campaign will help to build toilets and maintain them, and provide running and clean drinking water for school children in rural schools! The expected impact of the campaign is better health improved school attendance and a reduction in school dropouts among the project villages.
A message from the Campaign founders, Ms. Usha & Monika.
During our child protection work in rural and vulnerable communities, we found that children are not safe in school as well, they are facing many unsafe issues in school toilets, and it’s so often that school toilets are the cause of negative behavior. Students will often avoid going to the toilet because of the dirtiness, no doors, broken locks, soap is unavailable every time, mostly no electricity connections in toilets and somewhere lights don’t always work, unpleasant odors are around and all this combined suggests an unsafe environment. Young girls who drop out of school do so because the school hasn't got a basic toilet. Lack of toilets and water puts women and girls at risk of shame and a target for sexual assault. And many kinds of research have found that when students are avoiding school toilets they are often diagnosed with health problems. We found that all children are getting depressed and especially girls suffer a lot due to no toilets and bad toilets. Girls are mentally depressed themselves. Because of unsafe and dirty toilets, Girls are dropping out of school after seeing all this; we felt an overwhelming sense of sadness. What if there had been contacting numbers on the toilet door for Kids Helpline, I wondered, or an inspiring quote that spoke of hope? Might these simple things have made a difference? We decorate our school counselors’ offices in ways that we know will help elevate mood, yet we do not consider the one place we know upset students naturally gravitate to – the school toilets. At the moment, most school toilets are either sterile or covered in filth. We thought someone should do something about this; someone should encourage young people to redesign their toilets so they feel more welcome and nurtured. In doing so, teens would also be gaining incredible insights into how they can best self-soothe, and learning more about how design and the environment affect their mood. So we decided to be that someone!
We started by completing a 50 school toilets research paper (it’s riveting!) You may read the highlights on this page. We were stunned at what we discovered.
-In our research, we found that most of the toilets are closed. Not more than 1 seat in toilets, and a few badly damaged urinals for many students. No water fittings. No electrical fittings. No washbasin and no soap to wash hands. This leads to a long queue outside the toilet, and sometimes children need to resort to open defecation/ urination. It is even more challenging for the senior girls who, with the onset of puberty, have special sanitation requirements. Broken doors and a damaged roof do not provide them the privacy they need to manage their menstrual needs. We have to think as we found that there is an urgent need to reimagine school toilets.
We want to ensure that the school is a safe place to learn and grow. The first step in achieving our goal is renovating the government school toilet of the Banjara community (Nomad People). According to a UNICEF report, in India over two-thirds of girls studying in standard 8 and 9 skip school during their periods. This hampers their studies and eventually, one-third of these girls would drop out of school, thus harming their long-term prospects. We will work with the school authority and education committee to ensure the sustainability of this work so that this program will benefit 1431 students in Banjara Community Secondary School. Your donations will help us to make healthy, hygienic, 10 toilets in 5 schools (Separate toilets for girls and boys)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION for the toilet renovation and construction with all the water facilities (The total estimated cost for the one toilet from start to completion to meet the standard obtainable is INR 75000 to 100000/-)
For inquiries please call +91- 6367944907
or please send an email to: usha.weareone@gmail.com
Website- darakhtchhanvfoundation.com
Thank you so much as you donate to our project and join hands in fellowship with us in making a difference in our world.
Best
Ms. Usha S & Monika
Right now, there are 3.5 billion people still living without safe toilets. 419 million people still practice ‘open defecation’. In these situations, diseases spread, killing 1,000 children under five every single day. This global crisis poses a threat to nature and everyone’s health, particularly women, girls, and other vulnerable groups.
We need your actions – however small – will help improve toilets and sanitation systems and protect children's health, education, and nature. We are now counting down to 2030, with just seven years left to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) – safe toilets and water for all by 2030.
Today, the world is seriously off track. We need to work five times faster on sanitation.
Your Support We ConnectThe School Toilet Project. Why School Toilets?
Every Girl Deserves an Education, a girl is not a statistic or a piece of property. She's a child who deserves a future. Let's talk about Periods; Girls have to drop out of school, simply because they start having their periods and due to no toilets and bad toilets in the schools.
Having toilets and water is a basic necessity in schools; however, it is not available in many rural schools in Bharatpur Rajasthan! Due to this, children are irregular in school and eventually drop out. This campaign will help to build toilets and maintain them, and provide running and clean drinking water for school children in rural schools! The expected impact of the campaign is better health improved school attendance and a reduction in school dropouts among the project villages.
A message from the Campaign founders, Ms. Usha & Monika.
During our child protection work in rural and vulnerable communities, we found that children are not safe in school as well, they are facing many unsafe issues in school toilets, and it’s so often that school toilets are the cause of negative behavior. Students will often avoid going to the toilet because of the dirtiness, no doors, broken locks, soap is unavailable every time, mostly no electricity connections in toilets and somewhere lights don’t always work, unpleasant odors are around and all this combined suggests an unsafe environment. Young girls who drop out of school do so because the school hasn't got a basic toilet. Lack of toilets and water puts women and girls at risk of shame and a target for sexual assault. And many kinds of research have found that when students are avoiding school toilets they are often diagnosed with health problems. We found that all children are getting depressed and especially girls suffer a lot due to no toilets and bad toilets. Girls are mentally depressed themselves. Because of unsafe and dirty toilets, Girls are dropping out of school after seeing all this; we felt an overwhelming sense of sadness. What if there had been contacting numbers on the toilet door for Kids Helpline, I wondered, or an inspiring quote that spoke of hope? Might these simple things have made a difference? We decorate our school counselors’ offices in ways that we know will help elevate mood, yet we do not consider the one place we know upset students naturally gravitate to – the school toilets. At the moment, most school toilets are either sterile or covered in filth. We thought someone should do something about this; someone should encourage young people to redesign their toilets so they feel more welcome and nurtured. In doing so, teens would also be gaining incredible insights into how they can best self-soothe, and learning more about how design and the environment affect their mood. So we decided to be that someone!
We started by completing a 50 school toilets research paper (it’s riveting!) You may read the highlights on this page. We were stunned at what we discovered.
-In our research, we found that most of the toilets are closed. Not more than 1 seat in toilets, and a few badly damaged urinals for many students. No water fittings. No electrical fittings. No washbasin and no soap to wash hands. This leads to a long queue outside the toilet, and sometimes children need to resort to open defecation/ urination. It is even more challenging for the senior girls who, with the onset of puberty, have special sanitation requirements. Broken doors and a damaged roof do not provide them the privacy they need to manage their menstrual needs. We have to think as we found that there is an urgent need to reimagine school toilets.
We want to ensure that the school is a safe place to learn and grow. The first step in achieving our goal is renovating the government school toilet of the Banjara community (Nomad People). According to a UNICEF report, in India over two-thirds of girls studying in standard 8 and 9 skip school during their periods. This hampers their studies and eventually, one-third of these girls would drop out of school, thus harming their long-term prospects. We will work with the school authority and education committee to ensure the sustainability of this work so that this program will benefit 1431 students in Banjara Community Secondary School. Your donations will help us to make healthy, hygienic, 10 toilets in 5 schools (Separate toilets for girls and boys)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION for the toilet renovation and construction with all the water facilities (The total estimated cost for the one toilet from start to completion to meet the standard obtainable is INR 75000 to 100000/-)
- Excavation & Earthwork
- Concrete Work
- Block Work
- Roof Structure
- Doors & Windows
- Finishing (tiles, lighting, borne hole, etc)
- Painting Work
- Toilet seats and fittings
- Washbasin installation with hygiene products
- Contingencies
- Motor pump for water supply
- Drinking water facilities
- To increase awareness among adolescent girls on Menstrual Hygiene
- To increase access to and use of high-quality sanitary napkins for adolescent girls in rural areas.
- To ensure safe disposal of Sanitary Napkins in an environmentally friendly manner.
For inquiries please call +91- 6367944907
or please send an email to: usha.weareone@gmail.com
Website- darakhtchhanvfoundation.com
Thank you so much as you donate to our project and join hands in fellowship with us in making a difference in our world.
Best
Ms. Usha S & Monika
