Water + Sanitation + Hygiene = Healthy Schools
Summary
Help young children learn and grow by providing filtered water, latrines, and health education in their schools. For around 13 dollars per student, this project is changing lives in Cameroon.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Before receiving safe water, latrines, and health education through this project, students at St. Theresia nursery school near Kumbo used the playground to relieve themselves. Diseases related to poor water and sanitation are an ongoing barrier to education in Cameroon, where rural access to water and sanitation is below 50 percent and one in ten children dies before reaching age five. Thousands more nursery and primary school students are still waiting for a clean and safe place to learn.
Activities
Trained technicians install latrines and modified biosand filters at participating schools and equip teachers and children to use and maintain them. Health educators help start hygiene clubs for students at each school.
Funding Information
This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
This project will help young children by removing barriers to their health and education, preparing them to work and lead as healthy adults. Behavioral changes learned at school are also demonstrated to positively affect families and communities.
Project Message
LWDG-Cameroon has a team that is working to change the lives of the children. Health team, sand filter technicians and latrine builders and has two offices operational in Cameroon with staff.
- Peter Njodzeka, Founding President
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Joseph Aman
Director of Projects
LWDG - Cameroon - Head Office USA
104 Bremen Lane
McMurray, PA 15317
United States
724-942-3141
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Life and Water Development Group
PO Box 30370
Biyem-Assi,
Yaounde
00000
Cameroon
+237-7771-6288
http://www.lwdgc-africa.org/
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Cameroon
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Cameroon, read the Human Development Report on Cameroon or the Wikipedia entry for Cameroon.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 16, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
Updates on our project activities
By Peter Njodzeka - Founding Director, July 02, 2009 10:52 AM
Thirst Relief International USA and Life and Water Development Group - Cameroon working in partnership to change the lives of the local communities in Cameroon.
So far we have been able to change the lives of more than 25.000 people by providing access to clean drinking water, hygiene and sanitation education, pit latrine constructions in just one and a half year.
June 22-30th, Thirst Relief team visited Cameroon and we had a wonderful time organizing and training communities on a three day hygiene and sanitation training workshop where we had more than 40 participants from different regions of Cameroon.
We were also invited at the National TV on Hello program. Click the following link to visit our Youtube video on the National TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTagPEbX4pQ the video you are watching or about to watch now. You can also visit our photographs throughout the entire visit to see what we have been doing by clicking the following link: http://picasaweb.google.fr/lwdgcameroon click on each picture to view many.
We also invite you to support our projects by clicking on the following link: http://www.globalgiving.com/dy/v2/content/countries.html?country=Cameroon Pass this on to your friends and families who will be happy to support us continue this amazing work to change the lives and improve health.
$5 change a life, $50 change a household, $250 change lives of 15-50 children in each classroom out of six in the primary school or nursery school by providing 1 filter, hygiene and sanitation education, part of a 6 room new pit latrine to be constructed for the entire school.
Contact us for the training workshop and the entire visit detailed report.
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