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Qatar Charity (QC) is implementing a project to provide water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for 270,000 people in 19 areas of Shorkot in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
The project, which will continue until 2020, aims to improve the health and well-being of the rural population by changing their culture of sanitation and hygiene as well as providing safe drinking water.
The project is being implemented in 98 villages and 350 schools in coordination with the ministries of education and health of Pakistan. It will ultimately be a support to the Pakistan Approach for Total Sanitation (PATS).
The emphasis will be placed on students through water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) approaches in schools in line with Punjab’s schools strategy on WASH.
It is worth mentioning that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has implemented four separate projects in the Punjab Province in the same field. QC contributed to one of such projects with 35 percent of the total cost of the project, as its overall cost amounted to $1.5mn.
Under the project, QC carries out a range of educational and awareness activities to provide beneficiaries with hygiene skills and knowledge. It will train 1,050 teachers in Shorkot and form 350 water, sanitation and hygiene clubs comprising 193 government schools to improve health and hygiene condition.
QC has organised an interactive theatre on hygiene to raise people’s awareness about poor sanitation situation through dramatic theatre scenes, in order to change people’s behaviour for the better.
Besides, QC will organise 98 marches for sanitation weekly in villages with the help of a group of youth and the WASH committee of villages and the local community to change the people’s behaviour regarding the disposal of solid waste in designated places.
Such marches will help educate the local community about the importance of the cleanness of the sanitation places and solid waste management. QC has also plans to provide 6,000 toilets in Shorkot by March 2019.
In order to improve community health and hygiene practices, QC team implements communication campaigns to change behavior of people at different levels, such as home, school and community. More than 150,000 people have so far been reached in the same area.
Moreover, some 50 support group of women have been set up in the targeted villages and 40 groups of youth to highlight their role in the society.
Doha
Qatar Charity (QC) is implementing a project to provide water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for 270,000 people in 19 areas of Shorkot in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
The project, which will continue until 2020, aims to improve the health and well-being of the rural population by changing their culture of sanitation and hygiene as well as providing safe drinking water.
The project is being implemented in 98 villages and 350 schools in coordination with the ministries of education and health of Pakistan. It will ultimately be a support to the Pakistan Approach for Total Sanitation (PATS).
The emphasis will be placed on students through water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) approaches in schools in line with Punjab’s schools strategy on WASH.
It is worth mentioning that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has implemented four separate projects in the Punjab Province in the same field. QC contributed to one of such projects with 35 percent of the total cost of the project, as its overall cost amounted to $1.5mn.
Under the project, QC carries out a range of educational and awareness activities to provide beneficiaries with hygiene skills and knowledge. It will train 1,050 teachers in Shorkot and form 350 water, sanitation and hygiene clubs comprising 193 government schools to improve health and hygiene condition.
QC has organised an interactive theatre on hygiene to raise people’s awareness about poor sanitation situation through dramatic theatre scenes, in order to change people’s behaviour for the better.
Besides, QC will organise 98 marches for sanitation weekly in villages with the help of a group of youth and the WASH committee of villages and the local community to change the people’s behaviour regarding the disposal of solid waste in designated places.
Such marches will help educate the local community about the importance of the cleanness of the sanitation places and solid waste management. QC has also plans to provide 6,000 toilets in Shorkot by March 2019.
In order to improve community health and hygiene practices, QC team implements communication campaigns to change behavior of people at different levels, such as home, school and community. More than 150,000 people have so far been reached in the same area.
Moreover, some 50 support group of women have been set up in the targeted villages and 40 groups of youth to highlight their role in the society.
