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eClub Safari/Satelite Ocean Breezes will take the lead in the project. Being an eclub, the club has four members living around the targeted schools, therefore will be able to reach to the schools whenever needed. The international Clubs already committed in the project are led by The District 1080 (United Kingdom), Rotary Club of Houston-USA, Rotary Club of Aylsham-UK and Rotary Club of Sudbury-UK. All clubs and district combined have a total funds pledge of $29,500. While the budget is around $38,500, therefore a budget deficit of $9000.
The area of priority is WASH, specifically construction of a block of girls' toilet in Gede primary and a boys' and girls' toilet in Jimba-Gede Primary school. Considering that the potential deceases and lack of dignity will lead to avoidable students' absenteeism, toilets construction has was given priority. Toilets that includes a hand washing facility were prioritised as it clearly came out during the visits and committee discussions that no matter what else we do, the school cannot teach sick students. And, sanitation and hygiene practices such as proper toilet use, washing hands regularly and proper disposal of sanitary pads for girls are proven disease prevention in high population areas such as schools. Gede was selected due to there being only four working toilets for 850 girls. Jimba-Gede was also prioritised because all the toilets pits have filled up and are no longer usable.
The GG will be implemented and monitored as follows;
1) Construction of toilets. The students to toilet ratio in the target schools is completely inadequate as observed in the purple section of the needs assessment findings table above. This is mainly due a combination of two major factors that were observed during needs assessment; one, the school population has greatly increased since the introduction of free, mandatory primary education back in 2002 and the school facilities were never improved to meet the new demand and secondly most of the toilets were constructed more than 25 years ago and have little to no repairs done to them. In Gede primary, there was an effort to construct a new girls 20 cubicles that stalled for two years by the time of needs assessment. This left a halfway dug open pit that rendered four of the eight existing girls toilet inaccessible and making the toilet ratio even worse. The plan is to complete this pit, using the same already approved plan that is recommended by the ministries of education and public health. In Jimba-Gede primary both boys' and girls' two pit latrines have filled-up. Additionally, the toilets superstructure itself are too old and damaged.
2) Hand washing facility; is also a big priority as it goes hand in hand with toilets construction as part of the WASH ecosystem and a lack of it can lead to the same diseases that toilet construction will try to avoid. Therefore, a hand washing facility in Gede and two in Jimba will be constructed in this GG. Both schools have borehole water and will need a modern hand washing system that draws water from the school borehole.
3) Train students on WASH; This will be done as a sustainability measure. A training manual implemented by one of the club member's work will be used that train students in a fun and involving way on proper use of toilet facilities, washing hands and the direct relation to disease prevention. This shall be implemented by the member's work team by training the school's Hygiene club members who can then train the school students in bits during assemblies.
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