'''Country:''' Mexico
Keywords: WASH system, UDDT, urine fertilizer, education, school sanitation
=== Different settings require different solutions ===
'''Basic data:'''
The SWASH+ project rolled out by Sarar Transformación has reached 17 schools in the three rural Mexican indigenous municipalities. The sanitation solutions were introduced including composting ecological toilets, as well as urine-diverting dry toilets.
==== '''The project and the experiences:''' ====
Because Sarar Transformación sought to reach more than 2,500 students in seventeen different schools throughout a mountainous region in Oaxaca, it was clear that a single solution would not be right for all of the locations. Instead, the organisation sought to ensure that the school WASH systems were both protective of the environment and appropriate to the settings they are in.
The entire SWASH+ program was coordinated by Sarar Transformación with support from Global Water Challenge and funding from Coca-Cola Atlanta. In order to strengthen and institutionalise the roles and responsibilities of the various local stakeholders, the program formalized the handover process. Local authorities, school committees and the administration thereby agreed to oversee the correct use and management of the installed water and dry sanitation systems and to transmit knowledge and information to the incoming students, parent´s committee members, new teachers and school authorities.
==== '''The key lessons of the story: ===='''
[[File:Mexico3.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Handwashing facility at proper height for small users.]]
Fabiola pegged the following aspects as factors of successful school projects:
*Action plan to involve and train newly arriving students and teachers
==== '''Contribution to the SuSanA sustainability criteria:''' ====
==== '''Socially Acceptable and Institutionally Appropriate:''' ====
Conditions vary between different schools. Hence different solutions are needed.
==== Project details: ====
Project location: 17 schools in San Miguel Suchixtepec, San Pedro el Alto and San Marcial Ozolotepec, Mexico
'''''WECF'''''(Women in Europe for a Common Future) is a non-governmental organization established in 1994 following the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to give women a stronger voice in the field of sustainable development and environment. WECF strives for balancing the environment, health and economy, taking the different needs and perspectives of women and men into account and implements solutions locally and influences policy internationally.
==== For more information: ====[[File:Sarar Transformación.png|thumb|right|200px150px]]=== Contact ===
'''Fabiola Garduno'''
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