Initiatives to promote Wash in schools
Activities with UNICEF
Created on: January 02, 2014
partnering with UN organisations
INDIA NGO is partnering with UN organisations continuously for nearly three decades. The following are some of the major activities of our organisation jointly with UNICEF.
- Capacity building of School heads, Teachers and Block level Educational officials, on challenges in promoting sanitation & Hygiene in Schools during the pandemic (2021)
- Capacity building of Municipal functionaries, on challenges in promoting sanitation, Hygiene and managing the solid wastes during the pandemic (2021)
- Supply of Nutrition & Hygiene kit to Municipal frontline workers during the pandemic (2021)
- Supply of Thermal scanners, Masks, Hand sanitiser & Liquid soap for hand wash to Schools in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, and Dharmapuri & Krishnagiri Districts. (2021)
- Providing Technical Assistance to Tamil Nadu Education Department for achieving sustainable and equitable access of WASH facilities (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) in the Schools of the following 12 Districts of Tamil Nadu (2019-2020). The total number of schools promoted to a higher star category is 510.
- Capacity building of Teachers and School Heads on Sanitation & Hygiene promotion in the schools of Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Krishnagiri & Dharmapuri districts (WASHin Schools - 2018)
- Extended “Technical support to CII for promoting model schools of WASH in Sriperumpudhur block, Kanchipuram District” – Construction activities funded by Saint Gobain India Private Limited (2016-17)
- Capacity building of Teachers and School Heads on Sanitation & Hygiene promotion in the Districts of Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Krishnagiri & Dharmapuri (WinS - 2016, 2017 & 2018)
- Conducted 5 Regional workshop programmes to train Block Resource Teacher Educators in charge of Civil works of Samagra Siksha (SSA) from all over Tamilnadu – Promoting Hand washing stations in the schools of Tamil Nadu (UNICEF – SSA – INDIA NGO) (2017)
- Conducted a State level workshop programme on “Muzhu Sugadhara Tamizhagam” for capacity building of Chief Educational Officers of Tamilnadu (UNICEF – SSA – INDIA NGO) (2016)
- Promoting WASH model schools - 15 Schools promoted as WASH model Schools in Dharmapuri District with the support of UNICEF (2014)
- Promoted 1,000 + schools of Krishnagiri District as model schools under WASH in Schools (WinS) programme with UNICEF support. (2008 – 2014)
- Capacity building of Teachers and School Heads on WASH in Schools in Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Madurai, Theni, Tiruchirappalli, Virudhunagar, Erode, Salem, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, Cuddalore, Villupuram, Vellore & Tiruvannamalai districts
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