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Child Cabinet (Bal Panchayat) member meet

by IBNS 31 Mar 2017, 11:28 am

Kolkata, Mar 28 (IBNS): PATH Welfare Society with support from ITC Mission SunehraKal organized a Childrens Meet- a gathering of over 400 children & Child Cabinet members from 24 government schools in Kolkata.

The event aims at providing these children a platform to show case their learning’s and share their experiences in terms of promoting health & hygiene in their schools & how they ensured operation & maintenance of water & sanitation facilities that have been provided to their schools by ITC MSK.

The newly elected child cabinet Shri SaraswatiVidyalaya took their oath during this event along with the inauguration of the new Water, Sanitation & Solar Panels that have been provided to this school by ITC MSK, implemented by PATH Welfare Society.

To ensure that the schools maintain these facilities - several initiatives have been made to strengthen Child Cabinets; School Management Committees and Parent Teacher Associations. WATSAN (Water & Sanitation) groups have also been formed to ensure promote & create awareness on the importance of personal & environmental health & hygiene

ITC, Mission SunehraKal has been supporting PATH Welfare Society for the School WASH Programme, which has improved access to child friendly water & sanitation facilities to several government schools across West Bengal. 

Through these initiatives 15 child friendly schools have been developed including BALA (Building as Learning Aid) painting; provision of safe drinking water facilities; child friendly height appropriate hand washing stations; separate toilets for girls and boys; changing rooms & incinerators for adolescent girls among other activities like running of supplementary learning Centre for improving quality learning for weaker students and helping them to enhance their learning outcomes. 

This programme has also trainedschoolteachers in creative and joyful learning focusing on formative assessment for continuous comprehensive evaluation.