Date Posted: 3/31/2012 8:13:53 AM
Posted By: SimonMburu Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 838
Many rural schools in Kenya are being faced by a variety of challenges many of them (challenges) being infrastructure-related challenges like classrooms, electricity and so on. Good hygienic sanitation is a basic human need but in many parts of these areas it has been a scarcity due to some various complicated reasons which i will stress out later. Students in these areas especially girls find it hard to cope with the situation whenever they are having their menstrual periods and they maybe forced to stay at home and miss classes due to lack of sanitary towels and the poor sanitation facilities available. These facilities are quite few and they are in very poor conditions in terms of cleanliness, this becomes a threat to life as it leads to various water-borne diseases like the dreadful cholera or typhoid. The ministry of special programmes in conjunction with the ministry of education is literally trying to improve the current sanity situation in these areas by educating the citizens on the benefits of having good sanitation and helping communities build good facilities. Many schools in the county of Lamu and other rural locations in the Coastal province have been widely affected because of the following reasons.1. Poverty: Many rural communities at the Coast are not able to build good facilities or provide sanitation necessities like sanitary towels and toilet papers due to the high craving levels of poverty they are experiencing, this leaves them no choice but to construct small shatters which they use as toilets and bathrooms. In almost every village you will come across these shatters next to the homesteads and they are just shallow pit latrines, the problem now magnifies when the facilities have to cater for the needs of many people example in schools as they become extremely uncouth putting into consideration that some people access the facilities bear footed.2. Ignorance: This trend has become a way of life and majority of the residents ignore the benefits of good sanitation and perhaps they opt to treasure the old sanitation methods without considering the health threats they are putting their daughters in.This has even made it difficult for the government and non-governmental organizations to embrace new sanitation methods in these areas because they will bear no fruits.These are the two major reasons why sanitation is a challenge to education in our rural areas, other reasons could be corruption, poor accessibility and lack of education among the community members.
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