Registration

Register by emailing the project organiser

with the following information:

Class level:
School name:
Contact person name:
Contact person email:

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Curriculum achievement objectives

Life in the Highlands PowerPoint

Photos of Eastern highlands schools

Everything you ever wanted to know about toilets

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.

There is very little water to wash hands.

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 almost no health education materials in the schools.

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.

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Evaluation

These solutions will be evaluated by members of Oxfam's Water for Survival Programme.