The three primary schools in Kailer do not have access to clean water. Children bring a 5- liter jerry can filled with contaminated river water for drinking during the day. If the mother has 3 children, her first fetching trip of the day is exclusively to provide water for taking to school. There are no toilets. The students must use the bush to relieve themselves. This impacts adolescent girls who are embarrassed, particularly during their menses, to go to the bathroom outside – consequently they stay home a week every month or drop out of school entirely or endure painful urinary tract infections from waiting so long to go. It’s difficult to retain teachers in these schools – they are deemed “too primitive”. Building private toilets for boys and girls with access to a faucet for drinking and hand-washing would solve a myriad of issues.
School Toilets
Sanitation