Choshi Primary School is located north of Chinsali town center with a total population of pupils, translating to boys and girls. It is a single stream school having pupils from grade one to seven. The school had no deliberate programme concerning sanitation and hygiene education for pupils. In addition, the sanitation facilities at this school were inadequate.
As a result, pupils opted to go to the nearby bushes defecate. This was confirmed during the triggering process, where faeces were found around the school premises.
Pupils and Parents Share Their Joy. Grace, a 14 year old student at Choshi Primary School could not hold her joy. She said:. Before the construction of the new toilets most of us used to answer the call of nature in the nearby bushes.
As a result of this intervention, our attitude as pupils towards sanitation and hygiene has tremendously changed as noticed from the number of us using latrines for defecation as well as practicing hand-washing with soap at the multiple hand washing facility constructed for us.
The pupils are very happy to have received the knowledge about Menstrual Hygiene Management. The skills and knowledge they received has encouraged the pupils of this school, especially girls who are menstruating. Before the introduction of this programme, our girls were subjected to stay home for seven days without attending lessons. This led to most girls not attending school and resort to early marriage. Vision Africa Regional Network VAREN in Zambia was commissioned in in order to respond to a national and global context characterised by both persistent problems and major changes, which significantly threaten the quality of life of the periโurban and rural communities.
