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15th March 2023
The republic of Uganda

The Programme Manager

World Vision Oyam-Kole Cluster,

Dear Sir/Madam,

REPORT FOLLOWING TRAINING OF SCHOOL WASH CLUB (SWC)

IN ANYEKE PRIMARY SCHOOL.

Cross section of the participants inspecting their latrine facility

S/N Name of Facilitator Cadre Contact Sign

01 OKELLO JIMMY H/A 0772178850

02 AMWA DENIS H/A 0774548560

Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction:.................................................................................................................................3
2.0 Back ground to the training:......................................................................................................3
6.0 Activity mode of delivery:..........................................................................................................5
7.0 Workshop/training progress:...................................................................................................5
7.1 Workshop/training attendance:..........................................................................................5
7.2 Workshop/training participation:.......................................................................................5
7.3 Workshop/training content:..................................................................................................5
7.4 Workshop/training achievement:........................................................................................6
11.0 Recommendations:..................................................................................................................6
12.0 Appendices:...............................................................................................................................7
12.1 Training timetable:..............................................................................................................7
12.2 Pre and post-test questionnaire:.......................................................................................7
12.5 Attendance lists:...................................................................................................................7
12.6 Pictures of the training:......................................................................................................7
1.0 Introduction:
The School health club/ School WASH club is a vehicle that empowers pupils to play an active
role in deciding and implementing issues related to their health when they are in school. The
Club also affords the pupils the opportunity to become ‘Agents of Change’ who carry home and
translate into action healthy habits and information they learn at school and in this way influence
their sibling, parents and friends who might be out of school. The overall goal for school health
club was to promote and maintain behavioural change towards good hygiene practices and
proper use and maintenance of hygiene and sanitation facilities in schools. Children are more
receptive to new ideas and practices and therefore provide a suitable opportunity to introduce
knowledge and habits at an early stage. Having adopted good practices from a young age, they
are likely to continue so as adults, enabling reduction of water and sanitation related diseases. In
addition, children can be catalysts for positive change in their household and community. This
training is targeting 36 pupils, School WASH club patron and senior woman teacher in each
school. The training was conducted in the respective school and practical session was done in the
school environment.

2.0 Back ground to the training:

Water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) form a key part of a child’s welfare and its promotion is
an important part in the learning process of children. Policies, roles, responsibilities and SOPS
of MOH 2020 have been put in place to ensure safe & health environment for learners.
Providing the minimum necessary facilities and resources to enable every child to enter and
remain in school safely until the primary cycle of education is completed is one of the education
policy objectives, (policy objective iii, Oct.2008). Institutionalizing school WASH, with
emphasis on Adequate menstrual hygiene management is a corner stone to achieving the policy
objective iii.
Surely access to safe water and provision of proper sanitation in schools are as important to
acquire a quality education as books and pencils. Moreover, schools are an excellent platform for
hygiene education and the learning of overall proper hygiene practices, such as handwashing,
drinking safe water, and using hygienic latrines in addition to SOPs of MOH 2020 at an early age
of a child.
In fact, sanitation is a basic human right. It promotes children’s health which leads to better
educational outcomes. Reduce dropout rates especially among girls. Also, Schools provide an
excellent opportunity to create life-long changes in behavior and Children can be targeted as
change agents.
World vision Uganda targets to promote WASH in Schools through approaches; CHAST and
Behavioral Change Communication (BCC). With a set of strategically communication activities
targeted at a given audience in the population to influence information and voluntary decisions
and practices of individuals towards the desired direction. Peer education & Role modelling are
key approaches of BCC even among pupils.
The school Health Club (SHC) patrons, & Senior woman play a great role to anchor BCC in
SHC. Then the SHC multiply it into the entire school peers and even to the peers in
communities where they live. Such behavioural change is sustainable both in school and
households where children stay/live. Also result into prevention and control of the common
WASH related infections like; Diarrhea, Typhoid, Trachoma, Intestinal helminthiasis, Scabies,
Malaria and the spread COVID 19 among the population, and to observe adequate MHM at
school thus access to safe, conducive and inclusive learning environment.
The training of school WASH club members was conducted from Saturday 11 & Monday 13,
March 2023.
3.0 Aims and Objectives of the Training:
The objectives of the School Health Clubs are:

 Improved access to safe, conducive and inclusive learning environment

 To stimulate and increase children’s awareness of improved hygiene; to promote the
adoption of better practices related to the collection, handling and use of water, to
promote safe disposal of excreta and waste and good personal hygiene habits;
 To influence other family members and ultimately the community by popularizing
healthy habits in personal hygiene and environmental sanitation;
 To motivate the pupils to avoid the hazards of gastro-enteritis and other water-borne
diseases and to use sanitary latrines;
 To make pupils aware that the health of a person is the health and wealth of the family
and society.
 SHC again skills & tools on adequate Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM).
4.0 Contribution to child well-being outcomes:
SHC multiply it into the entire school peers and even to the peers in communities where they
live. Such behavioural change is sustainable both in school and households where children
stay/live. Also result into prevention and control of the common WASH related infections like;
Diarrhoea, Typhoid, Trachoma, Intestinal helminthiasis, Scabies, Malaria and the spread COVID
19 among the population, and to observe adequate MHM at school thus access to safe, conducive
and inclusive learning environment.
 Number of children at an education facility with access to basic drinking water.
 Number of Children with access to basic sanitation facility in education.
 Number of Children who have access to basic handwashing facility at an
education facility and at home.

Enrollment Latrine Stance

Pupils Teacher Pupils Teacher
Boys 821 Male 8 Boys 5 Male 1
 Girls 843 Female 4 Girls 5 Female 1
Total 1664 Total 12 Total 10 Total 2

5.0 Participant expectations:

 New knowledge and skill in managing the sanitation situation at school
 Menstrual hygiene management for girls (MHM)
 How to care for girls needs in school
 Tools for use in sanitation and hygiene practices e.g hand washing facilities
 Meal

6.0 Activity mode of delivery:

A number of methodologies were employed during the training not limited to the following;

 Demonstration
 Brainstorming
 Group discussion and presentation
 Picture illustration ( Safe Water Chain)
 Lecture

7.0 Workshop/training progress:

The training progresses well without major challenge.

7.1 Workshop/training attendance:

The World Vision had planned for 28 participants, and all participants attended

Teachers Male (Boys) Female (Girls) RC Non RC

Male Female Boys Girls Boys Girls
2 0 15 23 02 00 13 23

7.2 Workshop/training participation:

Female were more actively participating than male and had good knowledge on the topics
covered more than the male counterpart. This can be observed in the innovation of new ideas.

7.3 Workshop/training content:

 Definition of School Health Club (SHC)
 Role and responsibilities SHC member
 Roles and responsibilities of teacher in the implementation of SHC activities
  School sanitation overview
 Effects of poor sanitation & benefits of improved sanitation
 Hand washing
 Excreta disposal
 Safe water chain
 Personal and environmental hygiene
 Menstrual hygiene management
 Approaches to sanitation promotion e.g health parades, child to child
 School sanitation plan & monitoring Plan
 COVID 19 prevention and control (SOP)
 Sanitation Anthem

7.4 Workshop/training achievement:

 All sessions were delivered as per the plan schedule
 New knowledge and skill were acquired during the training
 New innovation of how to protect soap from both weather and goats/cows
 Developing sanitation plan and monitoring checklist for SHC activities
8.0 Observations:
 No changing room in the school
 In School the expected participants attended the training of SHC, boys were more than
girls.
 The participants were new members of SHC
 All the participants were actively participated during training
 Girls were more active throughout the session than boys
 There was proper time management by all and this led to successful completion of
training as per the program
 Participants were willing to change and practice what they had learnt during session
9.0 lessons learnt:
 The trainee started practicing good hygiene like setting up functional HWF within 5 meters from
latrine
 The participants learnt how to develop the sanitation plan
 SHC member needs to comprise of all classes both upper primary and lower primary
 SHC members were just form during the training days.
10.0 Action points:
 Rollout the new innovation of keeping soap in school and household
 Implementation of sanitation work plan by school authority
 Procurement of items use in menstrual hygiene management MHM by the school
authority
11.0 Recommendations:
 Schools should be supported with suggestion box
 The remaining club members should be trained

12.0 Appendices:
12.1 Training timetable:

12.2 Pre and post-test questionnaire:

1 a) What is school health club?

b) What are the composition of SHC member?

2 a) list the sanitary facilities needed at school

3. Mention five disease cause by poor sanitation

4. List the possible sources of contamination of water

5. Mention 3 way of preventing fecal – oral diseases

12.4 Workshop evaluation form:

EVALUATION QUESTIONS

i. Write three thing that you liked in this training

ii. Write three things that you did not like in this training
iii. What are the ways through which you will put into practice the knowledge gained?
iv. How should the future trainings be organized?
12.5 Attendance lists:

12.6 Pictures of the training:

SHC members inspecting water source

Planning for fencing water

Practical learning session with in the school
point
environment