World Water Day 2016 — Schools Pack
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WORLD WATER DAY 2016 — SCHOOLS PACK RESOURCES CONTENTS & INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION CONTENTS Welcome to our first ever free schools resource we 1. Introduction and contents. really hope you find it a useful way to learn about 2. Background information about water. water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues. We hope to create more in future and would welcome your 3. Background information about Pump Aid. feedback on what is included here via email on: 4. A Day in the life activity—before a pump. [email protected]. 5. A Day in the life activity—after a pump. 6. World Water Use Chart— no figures. Pump Aid was founded in 1998 and has already delivered water to 1.35 million people in some of the poorest and most isolated communities in sub 7. World Water Use Chart with figures. -Saharan Africa. We have installed 9,500 pumps in less than 20 years! The 8. Water benefits wheel activities. world really is changing for the better thanks to our work! 9. Elephant Pump—no labels. 10. Elephant Pump with labels. This positive impact and the rate of change make it a perfect subject to work on with children and young people where they can tackle some 11. Water fetching journey images and activity ideas. challenging global issues, but easily see the positive impact of work in the 12. World Water Day quiz questions. field. 13. World Water Day quiz answers. We really hope you enjoy this pack and consider signing up for our newsletter so you can be the first person to hear about any new resources 14. Links to further online resources including teaching we produce. packs for stage 1-4 and excellent water cycle films and pictures. These resources will always be free and fun to use but of course we hope that you might inspire the next generation of fundraisers and activists! 15. Fun ideas for further activity outside the classroom. Enjoy! 16. World Water Day infographic. 17. World Water Day Print it yourself poster or postcard. 18. General Pump Aid Print it yourself A4 leaflet. Michael Chuter, CEO Pump Aid WORLD WATER DAY 2016 — SCHOOLS PACK RESOURCES BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON WATER WHAT IF THE TAP RUNS DRY? Almost fifty per cent of the developing world’s population – 2.3 billion people lack improved sanitation facilities, and over 650 million people still use unsafe drinking water HOW DOES LACK OF CLEAN WATER AFFECT A CHILD’S EDUCATION? Each year, 270 million school days are missed due to water-related illnesses. Children have to walk several kilometres many times a day to collect. 4,000 children die every day from drinking contaminated water. More children die from water borne diseases than from HIV/AIDS, malaria and measles combined. Access to water and sanitation facilities in schools are major factors influencing whether children, particularly girls, attend and stay at school. In Africa, girls attend school for an average of only 2.8 years before they reach the age of 16. THE DIFFERENCE WATER MAKES Access to clean safe water and toilet facilities helps: Children to stay healthy and reduces the spread of water borne diseases. Women and children, with the task of collecting water now made quicker and easier, can focus on income generation and education. Children attend school more regularly and stay longer at school. Teenage girls say they are more likely to attend school if proper toilets are available. Schools to promote healthy lifestyles; clean water can be used to cook school lunches, keep toilets and classrooms clean and support other school projects such as market gardens. WORLD WATER DAY 2016 — SCHOOLS PACK RESOURCES BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON WATER IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY HOW PUMP AID WORKS Since 1998, Pump Aid has been working directly with communities in Pump Aid works in close partnership with District Health rural areas of Malawi, Zimbabwe and Liberia to provide water and Authorities to coordinate our activities with those of the local sanitation solutions. authority and to ensure that we do not duplicate the work of other We provide water to small and remote communities, often ignored by NGOs. Local authorities provide introductions to local leaders, larger NGOs, using a technology called an Elephant Pump (named which helps ensure that the community both wants and after the trunk-like shape of its water spill channel). The Elephant understands the need for our intervention. Pump is ideal for small communities and, because we use local sourced materials, it can be easily maintained by the community Our community facilitators convey the harmful effects of poor themselves. hygiene and sanitation and encourage the community to build and use toilets and to achieve Open Defecation Free Status. So far in less than 20 years we have helped 1.35 million people gain access to clean safe water and improved sanitation. We have We establish Water Point Committees to manage the pump and installed 9,500 pumps across some of the poorest and most rural toilets and encourage the participation of under-represented communities in sub-Saharan Africa. groups, especially women, who bear most of the responsibility for collecting water. The process ends with training in repair, maintenance and advocacy to ensure that change is irrevocably embedded in the community. DELIVERING SANITATION AND HYGIENE EDUCATION USING THE PUMP BUILDING AN ELEPHANT PUMP WORLD WATER DAY 2016 — SCHOOLS PACK RESOURCES A DAY IN THE LIFE ACTIVITY ACTIVITY 1: Read “A Day in the PRIMROSE’S DAY BEFORE THE ELEPHANT PUMP Life of Primrose before the My name is Primrose. I am 7 years old. My family is my Grandma, Mum, Dad, Auntie, cousin, Elephant Pump” as a group or individually. Then write down sister and 4 brothers. I am the youngest of the family. My Dad works outside the village. I help your own daily routines for an my Grandma, Mum and sister with the house chores. My 2 brothers and cousin are at Primary average day. School. Try to include information such 5:30am I wake up with the rest of my family. The sun is coming up now. Time to collect as: some water with my mum and older sister Natasha. We walk for 30 minutes to the When you get up open well. Because this is the nearest well to my village, we have to wait for half an hour to collect our water. When you go to school and 7:30am Using the water that was collected this morning. I help my mother to prepare how long you are at school for breakfast for the family. I help with the cleaning. Any jobs you do around the house 8:00am My brothers and father leave the house. My sister and I have to stay at home to help What time you go to bed. as my mother doesn’t have time to collect all the water that we need in the day. 10:00am My sister and I use the last of the water we collected this morning to water our family’s Once you have written out your routine share it vegetable garden. We are growing tomatoes, onions, potatoes and cabbage. My mum goes to with the rest of the group and create a collect more water from the well. comparison between your average day and 11:00am My sister and I have to go and collect water for lunch and washing clothes. I am not allowed Primrose’s before the Elephant Pump was to go to the well by myself as my mum is worried that I might fall in! Sometime village dogs installed. fall in the well and make the water dirty. Sometimes we get ill because of the dirty water. THE BENEFITS OF WATER 1:00pm My brothers have a proper lunch at school. I have a lunch at home. 2:00pm We need a lot of water in the evening as my 4 brothers and father need to bathe though ACTIVITY 2: Now read “A Day in the Life of they often have to share. My mum, Natasha and I go to the well again. Primrose after the Elephant Pump” and 4:00pm I pick some tomatoes, potatoes and onions from our garden for my family’s dinner. compare her daily routine now that she has 5:00pm Natasha and I go to the well for the final time today whilst my mum and grandma prepare access to clean and safe water with her routine dinner. They have to cook over an open fire for 9 people. It takes them a long time. It’s before the Elephant Pump. starting to get dark so we have to be quick. 6:00pm We enjoy our dinner together! ACTIVITY 3: Using the comparison between 7:00pm We do all the cleaning and talk about our day around the fire. her routines before and after the Elephant 8:00pm I go to bed first but the sister and brothers will go to bed soon too. There is no moon out Pump, write down some of the benefits that tonight so we cannot stay up late. I get tired from all the walking, so I am very sleepy. Night water has brought about for Primrose’s family. night. WORLD WATER DAY 2016 — SCHOOLS PACK RESOURCES A DAY IN THE LIFE ACTIVITY PRIMROSE’S DAY AFTER THE ELEPHANT PUMP My name is Primrose. I am 7 years old. My family is my Grandma, Mum, Dad, Auntie, cousin, sister and 4 brothers. I am the youngest of the family. My Dad works outside the village. I help my Grandma, Mum and sister with the house chores.