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Wara Bilong Life Project Outline Wara Bilong Life is a fun, interactive, classroom activity where students learn about global water and sanitation issues through a creative process.
It is a Technology, Social Studies, Health and Physical Education curricula project which takes place in term 4. |
with the following information: Check out the great ideas from last year's project
Getting started Photos of Eastern highlands schools The web quest
Click here to read which classes throughout New Zealand are also participating Wara Bilong Life project Timeline Where is Papua New Guinea?
Students may post questions about any aspect of the project by email. These questions will be answered by experts from Oxfam's Water for Survival Programme.
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Aims The aims of Wara Bilong Life are to encourage communication, the sharing of ideas between students throughout New Zealand to encourage 'out of the square' creative problem solving in a 'real world' context. The context Papua New Guinea ranks among the bottom ten nations worldwide for access to clean, safe water and sanitation. The project focuses on students in primary schools in the Eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea. Currently, school water tanks often only provide half a litre of clean water per student per day. Water can only be collected from metal roofs. Some schools have a thatched roof making water collection impossible. River water is often contaminated and located a long way from the school. The problem Very few schools have handwashing facilities and until recently, only a few of the schools had toilets. The schools do not collect enough school fees to build enough toilets and hand-washing facilities for students and the government provides little assistance. Unfortunately, the high incidence of typhoid and other diseases are a result of the lack of handwashing facilities. Also, there are little health education materials in the schools. The solution Using this information you are asked to design and make a prototype of a method of washing hands that requires very little water, produced from recycled materials. Education materials
should accompany the prototype.
Evaluation These
solutions will be evaluated by members of Oxfam's Water for
Survival Programme.
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