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CLEAN FUTURES
Transformation of a community school Kabir Secondary School is a community school in the village Itahari, located in the Lalitpur district of Nepal. It was established in the Baishakh (the first month of the Nepali calendar) of 2049 Bikram Samvat (BS), which translates to April-May of 1992. It was originally established as a primary school but later transformed into a secondary school due to the large number of students. At present, 452 students are enrolled in the school. As the school changed and grew, not much work was done to upgrade the infrastructure required to accommodate the students’ needs. The insufficient number of classrooms and toilets and no provision of safe drinking water due to broken taps were some of the significant challenges faced by the students. There was also no way to dispose of used sanitary pads, which further created unsanitary conditions in the toilets.
Overall, the sanitation conditions in and around the school were concerning due to the lack of upkeep. Students would often skip school due to the absence of basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities at the school. ChildHope’s project on WASH, together with Voice of Children (VOC), came to Kabir Secondary School in 2019. The team started engaging with the municipality to get started on infrastructure
