Phase I - Registration and Introduction

Week 1, Monday 9 October

Classes and schools register to take part in the project which is open to
all New Zealand primary school students.

Please email your registration to the project organiser with the following information:

* Class level...
* School name...
* Contact person name...

* Contact person email...
* Contact person phone...
* School address....

Registrations

Classes introduce themselves and share information about themselves, their schools and their area. Introductions will be put on this website. You can send your message of introduction as an email message to the: project organiser

Phase II - Research

Weeks 2, 3 & 4, 16 October

Classes research:

• sanitation and health education in their own school
• investigate similarities and differences between their schools and schools in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
• the water cycle from the water source to the final discharge at your home or school
• what is needed to clean hands to prevent disease

Look at some of the student hand washing solutions from our pilot project and click here for curriculum links and online resources to aid research.

Weeks 5 & 6, Monday November 6

Classes design prototypes of hand washing initiatives and accompanying health education with particular reference to their:

* effectiveness
* durability
* user-friendliness
* cost, and
* communication

Phase III - Solutions

Weeks 7 & 8, Monday November 20       

Participants put together a strategic plan for a solution to the hand-washing problem and associated health education and submit it to the project organiser who requires a copy of:

* the brief
* digital photograph of the prototype
* accompanying documentation
* health education material for both Papua New Guinea and New Zealand schools

These will be put on the project's web page. Students can email this information in Word, as a pdf file or web html pages.

Once the briefs and prototypes are online, there will be an opportunity for classes to test other classes' solutions under their own school conditions, write a short report about how it was tested and a report of its effectiveness.

Week 9, Monday December 4

Solutions evaluated by members of the Oxfam Water for Survival Programme.

Week 10, Monday December 11

The most viable solutions will be announced and all participants and winners will receive certificates for participation.