What is School Sanitation and Hygiene Education and what are the benefits of it?
School Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Education popularly known, as SSHE is a comprehensive and focussed programme intervention to promote children’s right to have healthy and clean environment, and improve health and hygiene status among children and community. SSHE offers several benefits to children, community and society at large. It attempts to reduce diarrhoea, intestinal worms, and eye infections and possibly reduces malaria and upper respiratory tract infections. It forms healthy habits in the future generation of adults and helps to improve sanitation and hygiene at home. Besides, it improves attendance in schools, especially of girls. For example in Bangladesh, a school sanitation programme increased girls’ enrolment by 11 percent (UNICEF).
