WORLD TOILET DAY 2023 & WORLD WATER DAY
PROJECT NAME: WORLD TOILET DAY 2023 & WORLD WATER DAY
DONORS: SELF & WASH SECTOR
LOCATIONS: GENERAL MURTALA MOHAMMED COLLEGE YOLA/ LIMAWA PRIMARY SCHOOL, YOLA NORTH, ADAMAWA STATE
Date: 19TH NOVEMBER 2023
About: World Water Day and World Toilet Day 2023 is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. Dysfunction throughout the water cycle undermines progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry and disasters to peace. WASH sector working group in collaboration with sector partners visited General Murtala Mohammed College Yola to commemorate the world water day by sensitizing the students and teachers on proper handwashing and good water chain. World toilet day was designated by the UN General assembly on 24 July 2013 to be celebrated annually on 19th November to inspire action to tackle Global Sanitation crisis. To make the event colorful J-HF and other partners visited Limawa Primary school where over 500 pupils were sensitized on good hygiene and sanitation practices as well as displaying a short drama on danger of open defecation by the pupils.