Hygiene and sanitation are essential to the survival, growth and development of children. This is the reason why improved sanitation is very important.
Storified by thelittlehandsf · Tue, Jan 21 2014 20:23:38
Hygiene and sanitation are essential to the survival, growth and development of children. This is the reason why improved sanitation is very important. The expected impacts of adequate sanitation combined with improved hygiene behaviors include better nutrition among children, lower rates of morbidity in the population, lower rates of mortality due to diarrhea, safer food and improved impact of clean water supplies, cleaner environment, more privacy and dignity especially for girls, better learning among school children and increased awareness of the importance of hygiene and sanitation as well as the need to create a more permanent strategy.
