YouthLead Changemaker Photo Contest
TITLE -Safe Sanitation is Cleanliness
Water is essential and fundamental for sustainable development, having a crucial role in human well-being, socio-economic growth and the health of the environment and ecosystems.
According to UNFPA, there are about 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24 in the world today—the largest youth population ever. And presently half of the world’s young people live in Sub Saharan Africa. Yet many youth are marginalized from political processes and excluded from participating in decisions that affect their lives without the recognition that these young people will bear the consequences of the policy choices that are made today. In our bid to provide water education that empowers community action to solve complex water issues, prior to the 2019 World Water Day, we carried out a school outreach programme to get youth to start getting involved in WASH. At the end of the session, the students were asked to write what safe sanitation and safe water mean to them. Here, school girls were expressing what safe sanitation mean to them and why youth should participate in the realisation of goal 6 of the SDGs.
According to UNFPA, there are about 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24 in the world today—the largest youth population ever. And presently half of the world’s young people live in Sub Saharan Africa. Yet many youth are marginalized from political processes and excluded from participating in decisions that affect their lives without the recognition that these young people will bear the consequences of the policy choices that are made today. In our bid to provide water education that empowers community action to solve complex water issues, prior to the 2019 World Water Day, we carried out a school outreach programme to get youth to start getting involved in WASH. At the end of the session, the students were asked to write what safe sanitation and safe water mean to them. Here, school girls were expressing what safe sanitation mean to them and why youth should participate in the realisation of goal 6 of the SDGs.