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WASH in school

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene and Climate Change Resilience

Safe water, sanitation and good hygiene practices

Handwashing

Making Handwashing a Habit for Children with the Aid of Musi

A mission to change community behaviour around handwashing with soap in Lao PDR.

Water supply

26 January 2023

Clean water reaches Phangsane village in Phongsaly

With support from Mr. and Mrs. Hagiwara/Japan Committee for UNICEF, Phangsane village now has a gravity-fed system as their source of water supply.

ODF

No More Open Defecation in Vientiane Capital

Lao PDR's capital becomes the first capital city in the ASEAN region to achieve the Open Defecation Free (ODF) status.

A pre-primary student at Keng Kou Primary School brushes his teeth.

Better education, improved hygiene for equal futures

More than 400 students now has improved access to water and sanitation in Saravan province.

A woman smiling

The Miracle of Water

How Providing Access to Clean Water Has Improved the Lives of Families

Deputy Village Chief Naduangchanh shows the new water towers constructed by UNICEF

29 January 2021

Ending open defecation for cleaner and healthier villages

UNICEF, with funding from MMG through UNICEF Australia, is supporting a community-led approach to eliminate open defecation in Viraburi District of Savannak

A child and a woman

28 January 2021

Hygiene and Health Go Hand in Hand

UNICEF is supporting schools in Savannakhet with essential sanitation facilities and helping to raise awareness

Children celebrating

15 October 2020

Splish-Splash-Rub-a-Dub!

Children celebrate the global handwashing day in Vientiane, Lao PDR.

A girl

Recover, Rebound, Reimagine

Building a better future for every child in East Asia and the Pacific, post COVID-19

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Recover, Rebound, Reimagine (PDF, 9 MB)