Worldwide Water Education
Educate. Empower. Act. The mission of Project WET is to reach children, parents, educators and communities of the world with water education. We invite you to join us in educating children about the most precious resource on the planet — water.
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Today is World Toilet Day, a day for raising awareness about sanitation issues worldwide.
Here's how Project WET is contributing to the solution: In collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Project WET created and distributed water, sanitation, hygiene and disease-prevention education materials to teachers in 1,000 sub-Saharan Africa schools from November 2007 to September 2009 and reached over five million African children.
According one school's evaluation, as a result of Project WET’s innovative teaching methods, the number of pupils and teachers washing their hands after using the toilet improved from less than 5% to over 38%.
Hand washing is the simplest, most effective way of preventing germs from spreading. Proper hand washing helps remove germs that cause disease, stopping many diseases from spreading through indirect and direct contact.
Read more about Project WET's work around water, sanitation, hygiene and disease prevention.
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