KPY recognizes that a key barrier to overcoming childhood and family poverty is environmental degradation and poor health due to poor sanitation and hygiene. Children in our target communities have identified problems with sanitation and hygiene because of lack of adequate toilet and hand washing facilities both at home and at school. Children are then susceptible to poor health and chronic illness which keeps them from attending school.

Therefore, KPY’s strategy is to mobilize local partners and authorities to ensure that children can live healthy lives in a clean and safe environment. KPY works with district public health officials, school principals and teachers, Commune Councils for Women and Children (CCWC’s), and the families of children to raise awareness and put into practice healthy behaviors of good hygiene, sanitation, and nutrition at home and at school. KPY has installed handwashing stations at XX schools where teachers support children in building safe handwashing and personal hygiene habits. We work with school leaders to create environmental awareness among students so that they provide peer to peer education among their fellow students and motivate them to maintain a clean environment at the school compound and at home.