Sulabh to conduct sanitation classes in Bhutan
May 14th, 2009 - 3:40 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Sulabh International, an NGO credited with improving sanitation across India, has been invited by the Bhutan government to conduct classes and a symposium on sanitation, health and hygiene for school children.
Experts from Sulabh will share their expertise with boys and girls from 20 schools in Bhutan via the Indo-Bhutan School Sanitation Hygiene Symposium to be held at Thimphu and Phuntsholing. Eleven school children from India will also visit Bhutan as part of an exchange programme during a five-day workshop.
“The main objective of this programme is to mobilise children to stimulate changes in traditional behaviour in the community, specifically about open defecation, through child to child and child to parent pressure,” Sulabh’s founder Bindeshwar Pathak said.
Child health groups in schools and communities will be established to increase awareness on hygiene issues among children.
According to Pathak, the programme aims to address lack of knowledge of basic practices like washing hands with soap at critical times, proper disposal of domestic waste, practice of keeping food and water covered and manufacturing low cost sanitary napkins at school.
In association with Unicef, Sulabh International and Bhutan’s ministry of education will organise the inaugural workshop May 19 at the Millennium Youth Centre, Thimphu. A special exhibition of environment-friendly models on sanitation will also be displayed at the venue by the Indian and Bhutanese schoolchildren.
- Sulabh to launch sanitation project in Uganda - Jan 16, 2012
- Gul Panag teaches hygiene to Delhi school kids - Apr 07, 2010
- Hello, This Is Nature's Call From A Garbage Heap! - Apr 07, 2012
- India's Sulabh gets top UN consultative status - Nov 03, 2011
- Unicef urges India to curb open defecation - Mar 27, 2012
- Only 10 percent Indian villages fully sanitized: Jairam - Mar 19, 2012
- Nirmal Gram: Bringing a cleanliness revolution to India's villages - Jun 06, 2011
- Runaway bride awarded for revolting against lack of loo - Feb 10, 2012
- Sulabh to launch toilets with health centres in Delhi - Jan 16, 2012
- 'Sulabh toilet model can be adopted worldwide' - Jun 03, 2012
- Haryana claims 80 percent success in checking defecation in open - Sep 22, 2010
- 'Sulabh toilets can help reduce global warming' - May 27, 2010
- Women can be prime movers of sanitation, says Patil - Mar 21, 2012
- Himachal to be free of open defecation by next month - Jul 24, 2011
- India's 'Sulabh Sauchalaya' going global - May 23, 2010
Tags: bhutan government, bindeshwar pathak, boys and girls, child health, critical times, groups in schools, health and hygiene, health groups, inaugural workshop, lack of knowledge, main objective, millennium youth, ministry of education, open defecation, sanitary napkins, school sanitation, schoolchildren, thimphu, unicef, washing hands