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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

WASH in school

Safe water, sanitation and good hygiene practices

Clean water, basic sanitation and good hygiene practices are essential for child survival and development

Children Washing Hands

Everything you need to know about washing your hands

Knowing the facts is key to being properly prepared and protecting yourself and your loved ones.

Washing hands

What is the best way to wash hands properly?

Protect yourself and your children

A village

A toilet at the price of three chickens.

Mr. Peun from Phongsaly province joins Lao PDR’s ambition to end open defecation by just paying the price of three chickens.

Children Washing Hands

Handwashing with soap, critical in the fight against coronavirus, is ‘out of reach’ for billions – UNICEF

Mother and baby

Water brings joy in a new mother’s life.

UNICEF’s intervention in 2018 Flood affected communities enables children and family to have access to safe and regular water supply.

Bandith testing water in Nasom Village, Vang Vieng, Vientiane province, 2008.

Bandith’s story

Delivering for every child in Lao PDR since 1991

Children washing their hands as part of the daily Hygiene Actions Led by Pupils in Schools HAPiS programme at Doub Primary in Saravane.

Good Hygiene Practices begin at school

Good Hygiene Practices begin at school

Nang belongs to the Makong ethnic group in Naloumai village

It takes a village – Hygiene promotion in southern Laos

Access to water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) has improved in the past few years in Laos

Khamkeut, 20 December 2018 – Khamkeut District, in Borikhamxay Province,

Khamkeut District Declared Open Defecation Free and a Healthy Model

Khamkeut District Declared Open Defecation Free and a Healthy Model