Africa News - Schools & Children

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January 16, 2016
Why Are Indian Kids Smaller Than African kids? Hint: It's Not Race
Poor sanitation in India affects pregnant women adversely.
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December 30, 2015
Plan-International Builds Modern School in Nimba County
Lontuo, a large community of more than 4500 inhabitant has a single public school in Twah River District which was founded since 1975. It's an elementary school with 445 pupils as of academic year 2015. The classes are overcrowded, no chairs, no toilet facilities, no libraries and safe drinking water.
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December 30, 2015
Focus on Gender: Three ways new toilet will help women
The Nano Membrane Toilet, invented at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, has been designed to separate solid waste and urine. The solid waste is incinerated to generate heat that powers the toilet as well as small appliances, and the urine is filtered into potable water.
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December 16, 2015
About 500 Children Die Daily In Sub-Saharan Africa Due To Lack Of Clean Water, Sanitation
A major obstacle is the fact that African countries are allocating only a nominal amount to UNICEF’s Water Sanitation and Hygiene efforts. For example, no African country has devoted more than 0.5 percent of GDP to WASH.
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November 19, 2015
Reading, writing and sanitation: how kids are key to ending toilet taboos
Get kids talking about the loo, say NGOs, and it will help break down a major barrier to education in the developing world: cultural taboos about sanitation.