By Rose Hennessy | Operations Manager
Thank you for supporting this project keeping girls and boys safe and healthy at school and ensuring they get the best opportunity to stay in school.
Students play a huge role in helping to ensure their schools are safe and healthy places to learn in. Schools choose 20 students to form a healthy schools club and each club has 10 boys and 10 girls. They take part in training about healthy schools, then they undertake a needs assessment of their school to identify what health risks there are and how to create an action plan to address these risks. Some items are small and can be sorted out by the student club and other items that are bigger are undertaken in partnership with Brighter Communities Worldwide e.g. construction projects of toilets and water tanks.
Students of Sisionik Primary school in Sigowet Sub-County recently undertook their training. They said “We are grateful for the support and look forward to partnering with Brighter Communities Worldwide on improving sanitation in school in different projects”. Two of the items on their list include girls toilets and an industrial smokeless stove.
As the year progresses, each school in the programme works towards one of three flag awards – Bronze, Silver and Gold. When the school achieves the criteria of each level they are awarded a flag which is flown in the school and shows that it is a healthy place to learn, play and live. In March, students of Kakibei school received the Silver Flag for their commitment and work in becoming a Healthy School. They said -
“We are deeply touched and grateful to receive this award. Your recognition motivates us to strive for even greater achievements. Thank you for bestowing this prestigious award upon us KAKIBEI. It is a testament to the amazing support we have received throughout our journey.”
Right now, there is an overseas volunteer team in Kenya and one of their roles is to assist the team in delivering the healthy schools programme.
Cian and Clare joined staff member Sonya at Ketipyese primary School in delivering the sexual reproductive health and rights programme to the students. They said – “we had an amazing day, we were astonished by the classes knowledge and enthusiasm for participation. From the moment we arrived to the moment we left we were embraced by the pupils love of learning. The whole school came out at the end of the day to sing and dance as a send-off for us”.
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