Lifeskills: Football for Water
Football for Water is a public-private partnership (PPP) consisting of the following organizations: Royal Netherlands Football Association, Unicef Netherlands, Simavi, Vitens Evides international, Aqua for All, Akvo and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The main goal of the program is to improve drinking water and sanitation facilities at 1100 schools in Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. Furthermore, more than 700,000 school children will be taught life skills related to hand washing, clean drinking water and improved sanitation through football- and life skills coaches (WorldCoaches).
Safe sanitation
Safe sanitation refers in general to facilities for safe disposal of human faeces and urine. Unsafe sanitation is a major cause of disease. Therefore using latrines properly and stopping open defecation are of high importance for improving the health of your players and yourself.
The Safe Sanitation manual will guide you through these critical topics:
- Stop open defecation
- Good use of latrines
- What can you as WorldCoach do for safe sanitation?
- Roadmap (realize, analyze, act)
- Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address sanitation issues