Water & Sanitation for All

This issue we have...

1. In the country called "Roof of the World"- NEPAL 2. Quiz Competition on Health and Hygiene 3. Auditors in Filed 4. Media Exposure Visit 5. Press Conference on Media Sensitization Seminar 6. Case Study:My School My Future

Vol. 1 Issue.3

WASH Newsletter

April-June, 2013
www.hands.org.pk

IN THE COUNTRY CALLED ROOF OF THE WORLD- NEPAL

By: Ghulam Mustafa Zaor We group of five ambassadors of HANDS Pakistan visited Nepal as a study and exposure visit, which was cosponsored by Water Aid in Pakistan. It was seven days exposure visit where I along with my team members Maqbool, Khalid, Waseem, and Zahir met six different organizations named as EnvironmentalCampus forConservation Awareness (ECCA), Clean Energy Nepal (CEN), UN HABITAT, and Center for Integrated Urban Development (CIUD), Water Aid Nepal, Environment and A group photo along with fellow team members in Public Health Organization (ENPHO). Nepal We truly enjoyed a lot as we witnessed different activities which include field visits, physical observation, and WASH committee's interviews followed by questions and answers session. We also observer some quite major facts such as school timing in all over Nepal is 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Education is prioritized by communities and parental involvement, they have large use of dustbin in all schools, child friendly latrine were found in schools specially for 3-5 years old kids, we saw WASH messages were painted in schools. There was provision of hanging school bag in the each classroom which was made of wooden plank with hooks that was very nice to see that they have very good harvesting system in school for rain water. Construction cost is very high due to high rate of material cement bag which costs almost 800 Nepali Rs, Sand 55 Nepali Rs/cft and Crush 60 Nepali Rs/cft. Lab cost of load bearing building is approx 1800 Nepali Rs/sq-ftand the cost of RCC structure is about 2400 Nepali Rs/Sq-ft most of them prefer construction of RCC structure as they are in earth quake zone and 2 tectonic plates are adjoining in Himalayan range. As they have efficient use of Ferro cement therefore in most of WaterAid project they have constructed Ferro cement underground water tank of capacity 20,000 liters and all water coming in and going out are of gravity flow. Due to power shortage as Nepal is facing approx. 8-10 hours load shading on daily bases, every development sector organization we visited had meeting rooms and offices using maximum sunlight there was not major use of electricity, not even fans as they have used maximum cross ventilation process for energy saving. Nepal has very diverse culture, one should visit it once in a life, we really enjoyed and personally thankful for WaterAid and HANDS to provide us such a marvelous opportunity.

EDITORIAL TEAM
Managing Editor Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed Editor in Chief Dr. Bilquis Rehman Editor Faizan Munawar Ali Varya

A brief group discussion before a field visit

Composer Abrar Siddiqui

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QUIZ COMPETITION ON HEALTH & HYGIENE

By: SafiaTareen and ShahnazShahid The quiz competition day was held on 29th May 2013, in the morning breeze pupil seems quite confident enough with winning gesture along with light smile on their faces. This event was organized byHANDS Pakistan in collaboration with WaterAid in a project of HSBC. Smiling faces of kids at GBPS Sukhio Goth which is located at UC-4 of Gadap Town, was the most precious moment of one's life who work in development sector for me that was very impressing to see the results which we found in the quiz competition which was participated by 20 selected pupils whose schools were facilitated under project School Wash Project. These 20 pupils were divided into four teams comprising five contestants each, they were seated opposite to each other and the viewers were sitting on benches in the corridor of the school.

Winners of quiz competition

Participants are in race to win the competition

Price distribution ceremony after competition

A participant while receiving his shield

AUDITORS IN FILED
May 27th 2013: Three auditors from an auditing firm called Anjum & Asim Co. visited the HANDS and Water Aid Pakistan's five joint intervention at GGLS Rerhi at Memon Goth, GBPS Bakshoo Bandicho, GBPS Dur Muhammad Baloch, GGLS Dumba Goth and
A view of gifts and prizes for winers

GGPS Dumba Goth.

Media Exposure Visit

Karachi - 30th April 2013: A Media exposure visit was organized by HANDS Pakistan with the collaboration of WaterAid Pakistan with the objective to aware Local government departments, Journalists, Press clubs and Media groups about importance of School WASH and provision of Safe Drinking Water and relevant stake holders to have a comprehensive understanding of the extent and condition of school WASH facilities. This exposure visit was attended by prominent journalist of print and electronic media who visited GBPS Dur Muhammad Baloch, GGPS Hashim Khaskhely, GBPS Hashim Jokhio School The delegates especially admired the efforts of children, community and teachers of GBPS Dur Muhammad Baloch, This was a more than half a century old school and it was being run without the availability of functional WASH facilities prior to HANDS WaterAid Intervention. Later on the delegates departed for the GGPS Hashim Khaskhely. The school WASH facilities such as water delivery system, rehabilitation of hand washing facilities and latrines have also been updated by the respective community, teachers and School WASH committee. After that the visiting delegation preceded to the visit the GBPS Hashim Jokhio village public boys primary school WASH rooms which were previously defuncted and made full functional along with hand washing and water delivery systems. Portable ceramic filters have also been provided to all the 35 schools under WaterAid and H&M project. After visiting school WASH project the team departed to the south western nook of the Gadap Town. The caravan of the media delegation by crossing from the HyderabadKarachi super high way arrived at Communal Filtration Plant Yousuf Goth. The filtration plant was fixed in a room by then City District Government in 2004. However for more than two year due to unavailability of proper care and maintenance, the plant became dysfunctional this plant has the capacity of delivering 1000 gallons of filtered drinkable water per day. Now, it has become now fully functional by the efforts of HANDS in collaboration with Water Aid in Pakistan.

A group photo of HANDS representatives along with journalist in the field

Dr. Bilquis Rehman along with beneficiaeris during media exposure visit

Journalists along with GGPS Hashim Khaskheli teaching staff during visit

Project beneficiary explaining WaterAid interventions in his school

Renowned journalist Shahid Hussain seem busy in reporting visit

PRESS CONFERENCE ON MEDIA SENSITIZATION SEMINAR

Karachi: A press conference on media sensitization seminar organized by HANDS in collaboration with WaterAid Pakistan in which HANDS General Manager ICR & A Dr. Bilquis Rehman stated that access to safe drinking water is a basic human right, which declared in 2002 by the United Nation. She further added that it's the responsibility of the state to provide every citizen with sufficient, safe, affordable drinking water for personal and domestic use. Later HANDS General Manager Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Ms. Rubina Jaffery shared a survey conducted by HANDS reveals that water supply in Gadap Town is quite poor as town receives only 7.5 hours per day water supply with an average of 15.2 days a month she further shared overview on sanitation conditions in Pakistan and indicated the issues and suggested solutions for an improved sanitation plan in the light of baseline surveys conducted by HANDS.

Dr. Bilquis Rehman press briefing on Water and Sanitation Challenges to Urban Slums Residence of Gadap Town

OUR SCHOOL OUR FUTURE

. A Case study of about Dur Muhammad Goth School

By: Abdul Wahab Today we are talking about Dur Muhammad Goth School students and staff as our case study because when HANDS team visited that School condition was really very worse, there were no concept of functional washroom and the safe drinking water. After mobilization and subsequent HAS (Health Action Schools) training and Young Health and Hygiene leadership training and intervention of renovation. School condition has changed in these process students and staff completely participated. Now it's part of their life that volunteer peoples spent their at least one hour after school timing. Aamir a student of school said we are volunteering to clean are school because we would like to study in healthy environment and we have to stay clean.

Pupils showing their zest to clean their school

A beautiful view of school after cleaning

Wash basin facility in school premises

A student drinking water from HANDS Purification unit after cleaning school

A student is washing his hands after participation in activity

This publication is published with the financial assistance of WaterAid and HSBC. For further contact: ideas@hands.org.pk

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