School Sanitation and Hygiene Education focuses on development of life-skills, a healthy and safe school environment and outreach to the families and communities. Children are eager to learn. Schools can stimulate and support positive behavioural change in children. Children have important roles in household chores related to hygiene. Depending on the culture, children may question existing practices in the household and become agents of change within their families and communities.
Children are future parents.
What they learn at school is likely to be passed on to their own children. All girls should have access to safe, separate and private sanitation facilities in their schools. If they don't, some are forced to leave school. When girls start menstruating, the need for these facilities is even stronger. Sanitation facilities should be adapted to the different physical and sometimes cultural needs of girls and boys.