Yagazie Foundation partners with Aspira Nigeria to conduct a WASH project in three community schools in Nigeria
Yagazie Foundation partnered with Aspira Nigeria Limited, the makers of Household and Toiletries Products to facilitate a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Project in three community schools in Lagos.
Poor access to improved water and sanitation in Nigeria remains a significant contributing factor to high morbidity and mortality rates among children under five.
The use of contaminated drinking water and poor sanitary conditions result in increased vulnerability to water-borne diseases, including diarrhoea, which leads to the deaths of more than 70,000 children under five annually.
73% of the diarrhoeal and enteric disease burden is associated with poor access to adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and is disproportionately borne by poorer children.
Frequent episodes of WASH-related ill-health in children contribute to absenteeism in school and malnutrition. Only 26.5% of the population uses improved drinking water sources and sanitation facilities. Also, 22% of the population defecates in the open. (Culled from UNICEF Nigeria)
Without water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), people’s well-being, dignity and opportunities are severely compromised and possess a high level of risk, especially women and girls who are the most vulnerable.
The names and population strength of the community schools are:
- City Pride School, Lekki
Pupils Teachers and Supporting Teachers 530 - Surulere senior secondary school
Teachers inclusive 600 - Surulere community junior secondary school
Teachers inclusive 400
We enlightened the pupils and students in the three schools on cultivating a proper hygienic habit.
Our Facilitators, Kennedy Ezirim, Divine Chinyere Ezendiokwere and Chiamaka Ononiwu, the population strength of the schools is a total of 1530 beneficiaries today.
Thanks to:
Aspira Nigeria Ltd.
Mrs Udehaja, The School Admin of City Pride School
Mr. Daramola James Adekunle, The Vice Principal of Surulere Senior Secondary School
Mrs Ademiju Junior School, The Principal of Surulere Senior Secondary School and to all the volunteers and Yagazie Foundation Fans for the successful implementation of this WASH project today
Yagazie Foundation laid much emphases to the pupils, students, and their teachers that access to water, sanitation, and hygiene are human rights and must be respected and observed in all their daily activities for a proper healthy life.
Warmest Regards from all of us at Yagazie Foundation and Aspira Nigerian Limited.
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