About 250 million children are not receiving the education they need to master basic academic skills (UNESCO, 2014). The Rotary WASH in Schools Target Challenge aims to tackle that statistic. This pilot program is bringing together Rotarians to develop comprehensive and sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and education projects in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, India, and Kenya. Learn how we can use Rotary resources to help improve school attendance and academic outcomes through WASH services and education initiatives.

1. Creating Quality Education
Programs through WASH in
Schools (WinS)
Moderator: Mary Jo Jean-Francois
Presenters: PDG Ramesh Aggarwal,
DGE Julio Grazioso, DGN Jeffery Bamford
14 June 2017

2. Trustee Sushil Gupta
Chair of the WASH in Schools Committee
Rotary Foundation Trustee 2014-18
Welcome

3. Since 2010, The
Rotary Foundation
has invested $15
million on over 200
WASH in Schools
projects in 48
countries.

4. Interest in grants geared towards implementing holistic
projects in schools is increasing.
42 of 273
Water & Sanitation
grants were dedicated
to WASH in Schools in
2015-2016

5. Understand the
WASH in Schools
Target Challenge
Hear about the
importance of
WASH in Schools
and its impact in
the five focal
countries
Learn how you
can get involved
Objectives

6. Target Challenge:
Can Rotarians work
together and focus
their energy to
achieve a common
goal that
integrates water,
sanitation, and
hygiene with basic
education and
literacy? Can
Rotarians improve
the quality and
sustainability of
projects?
Rotary’s Target Challenge
WASH in
Schools

7. Introductions: Panelists
Moderator: Mary
Jo Jean-Francois,
Area of Focus
Manager
Past District
Governor Ramesh
Aggarwal
District Governor-
Nominee Jeff
Bamford
District
Governor-Elect
Julio Grazioso

8. Why is WinS important to India?
• 1.45 million schools in India
• 13 million children go to school
everyday.
• Every 20 seconds a child dies in
India
• Over 1000 children die
everyday because diarrheal
diseases arising due to poor
WASH facilities
Why is WinS important to India and what is the need?

9. Why is WinS important to India and what is the need?

10. Why is WinS important to India?
61 million
stunted
children
595 million
people
defecate in the
open
6 million
children out
of school
1.4 million
children die before
they turn five
India’s global footprint
28%
of all neonatal
deaths
22%
of U5 deaths & 20%
of maternal deaths
60%
of open
defecation
40%
of all child
marriages
33% of world’s
stunted
children
Why is WinS important to India and what is the need?

11. Why is WinS important to India?Why is WinS important to India and what is the need?

12. Why is WinS important to Kenya?

13. Why is WinS important to Kenya?

14. FOCUSED ON CHILDREN
CHANGING ATTITUTES
NO ADEQUATE FACILITIES
Why is WinS important to District
4250?

15. EQUITY AND AVOID
DROPPING SCHOOL
ALLIANCES
Why is WinS important to District
4250?

16. Target Challenge

17. Target Challenge
• Attendance response plan executed
• MHM friendly school
• Continuous O&M
• Safe drinking water available
• Facilities used by all children
• Capacity building for School Management Committee (SMC)
• Planning for operation & maintenance (O&M), menstrual
hygiene management (MHM), and long-term financial costs
• Gender-segregated toilets
• Teacher training in hand washing
• Hand washing facilities with soap/ash and water
• Improved water supply
1 Star

18. Target Challenge
• Continuous capacity building for SMC
• Teacher training in hand washing
• Improved water supply and hand washing facilities with
soap/ash and water
2 Star
1 Star
• Attendance response plan created
• Technical training for O&M
• O&M and MHM plans are executed
• Teachers trained in MHM
• Safe drinking water available
• Facilities used by all children

19. Target Challenge
• Continuous capacity building for SMC
• Continuous teacher training in hand washing & MHM
• Functioning hand washing facilities with soap/ash and water
• Attendance response plan executed
• MHM friendly school
• Continuous O&M
• Safe drinking water available
• Facilities used by all children
2 Star
1 Star
• National standards are met
• Curriculum enhancement
• Government support
• Transference of healthy behavior
3 Star

20. WASH in
Schools
projects in
India

21. Primary School at Gheja Village in UP in India

22. Primary School at Gheja Village in UP in India

23. India
Primary School at Gheja Village in UP in India

24. Primary School at Gheja Village in UP in India

25. India- Primary School at Gheja Village in UP
• Seeking star one recognition and working
towards star two under the Target Challenge
• Enrollment has gone up to 38%
• Attendance has increased to 90% from 60%
• Drop out has been reduced to <5% from 30%
• Need sustainable infrastructure
• Teachers training and SMC activation is a
challenge.

26. Primary and High Schools at Palna Village in
Haryana in India

27. Primary & High Schools at Palna Village in
Haryana in India
• Seeking star one recognition, collecting data to
qualify for star two under the Target Challenge
• SMC activated
• Involvement of Interactors in training SMC and
orientation of students
• The project has just been completed and out
come will only be known after the next
academic year which will begin July 2017

28. WASH in
Schools
projects
in Kenya

29. Kenya

30. Kenya

31. Kenya

32. Kenya

33. WASH in Schools projects
in District 4250

34. Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
District 4250 3 COUNTRIES 1
DISTRICT

35. MANY PROJECTS TO BE ALIGNED
PILOT WITHIN THE PILOT
GETTING INVOLVED KEY ACTORS
District 4250

36. SUBMITTING GLOBAL GRANT PROPOSALS
FINDING INTERNATIONAL SPONSORS
District 4250 IMMEDIATE
CHALLENGES

37. All Schools with Sanitary Facilities
No one dropping school because lacking of hygiene conditions
Children teaching families
ROTARY is committed to WASH
ROTARY is the best PARTNER.
ONE CLUB… ONE WinS PROJECT
District 4250 OUR DREAM

38. Resources at www.rotary.org/WINS

39. Competitive Grant
Action Deadline
Competitive Grant Announced 29 March 2017
Phase 1
Community Assessment Proposal & Budget Due 30 June 2017
Clubs/Districts notified whether they have been
selected to receive the community assessment award
(10-12 proposals) 30 July 2017
Community assessment(s) conducted by awardees 1 August – 15 November 2017
Phase 2
Full project proposals due from community
assessment awardees 15 December 2017
Community assessment awardees notified whether
they have been selected to receive project proposal
award (3-5 proposals)
31 January 2018
Project proposal awardees implement and report on
projects
31 January 2018 – 31 January
2020
All activity and spending closed 1 March 2020

40. Questions?

41. THANK YOU! For more information and resources
make sure to check out the WASH in Schools Target
Challenge webpage at www.rotary.org/WINS.

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