Breaking barriers to girls' education in Chad.
In Chad, water, hygiene, and sanitation facilities help to keep girls and adolescents in school.
In Chad's Logone Oriental Province, access to safe water and latrines was a major challenge for refugee, returnee, and indigenous pupils in the 42 schools targeted by the "Breaking Barriers to Girls' Education" project. Lack of water and toilets means poor hygiene and sanitation conditions, but above all, the difficulty of managing menstrual hygiene for young girls. Thanks to the support of the Government of Canada and UNICEF, all this is now past.
"As a teacher, I am happy with the manuals and pictures boxes we received. In addition to the oral explanations, the pupils can see drawings illustrating the good practices on the picture boxes. It allows them have a better understanding before the practical explanations."
In Goré, for example, schools and communities have been trained in the maintenance and proper use of hygiene and sanitation facilities. To ensure that the lessons are not just theoretical, 78 blocks with 3 latrine cubicles have been built in the schools, and materials such as soap and hand-washing facilities have also been made available.
In addition, to support children in this often-arduous task, more than a hundred primary and secondary school teachers received capacity building in hygiene education and menstrual hygiene management. These teachers in turn taught the adolescent students, using the modules, manuals, and teaching aids provided to them.
In this photo report, let's take a tour of the Goré pilot school, a beneficiary of this project aimed at breaking down the barriers to girls' education.