| Title | India : SWASTHH : India’s ‘clean school and village’ movement |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | York, USUNICEF-N |
| Secondary Title | Sanitation and hygiene case study |
| Volume | 2 |
| Pagination | 4 p.; ill.; 1 box; 5 photographs |
| Date Published | 2008-01-01 |
| Keywords | access to sanitation, case studies, environmental education, health education, hygiene, india, school water and sanitation towards health and hygiene programme (swasthh) (india), schools |
| Abstract | Swasthh [School Water and Sanitation Towards Health and Hygiene] is one of several government initiatives aimed at changing the culture of schooling in rural India as part of the drive for ‘education for all’. ‘Swasthh’ means ‘health’ in Hindi, and this programme is all about improving the ‘health’ of basic schooling. This is a huge undertaking: hundreds of thousands of village schools are drab, badly-constructed and under-equipped. Toilets, if they have them, are typically crude and without a separate block for girls. Attendance is poor, classes large, much learning is by rote, and teachers and students often lack motivation. [authors abstract] |
| Custom 1 | 303, 203.0 |
