CHILDREN as BEST CHANGE AGENTSAn experience of LEAF Society 04/10/2023 www.leafsociety.in 1

Water & Sanitation Project of LEAF Society

• 1500 Units have been completed & 1000 units are under progress out of Target of 10,000

• Generated 19,500 person days of employment • Tons of human waste have been disposed off safely

( 750 MTs Approximately)• 2166 Male, 2241 Female and 1551 Children are using

toilets• Leveraging resources from MNREGAS & NBA, MFIs,

NABARD • Being supported by ARGHYAM for the past five years • Generating Rs.55 millions for sanitation with input of

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Innovative efforts of LEAF Society • Promoted 15 exclusive sanitation Societies &

a SANITATION FEDERATION • Featured as Sanitation Driver by UN University

on Water, Sanitation and Environment • Case study of LEAF has been shortlisted to be

presented in Hyderabad by CWS supported by EU

• Personal Hygiene Dairy – 15,000 children from 10 district by WASHNET & 25,000 copies by Exnora International 04/10/2023 www.leafsociety.in 4

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Particular Over all Amount Utilized for - 2352 Toilet

Amount utilized for - 1500 Toilet

Remaining Amount – 852 Toilet

Guardian - 694 69,40,000 48,90,000 20,50,000

MGNREGS & NBA - 1291 1,31,68,200 75,58,200 56,10,000

NABARD- 241 24,10,000 14,40,000 9,70,000

Woman Society - 19 1,90,000 1,90,000 0

own -2352 3,69,73,030 2,35,79,739 1,33,93,291

Total Rs.5,96,81,230 Rs.3,76,57,939 Rs.2,20,23,291

FUND MOBILIZED

FOUR SQUARE APPROACH

• Providing Technical support

• Linkages with sources

• Innovative multimedia, IEC, IPC & BCC campaigns

• Door to door• Community

sensitization

• Promotion of Savings for hygiene, sanitation

• Trainings and door to door campaigns

• Fine tuning attitudes of children from JFL, schools & trainings

Children as Change

Agents

Promotion of Sanitation

Societies for Women – Sanitation

Federation

Meeting the demand with credit or grant

supply

Innovative Multimedia –

IEC, IPC & BCC tools and

techniques

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Why should Children & Hygiene?• Hygiene is sign of Health • Hygiene is a set of practices performed for the

preservation of health ( Wikipedia) • We believe Sanitation is Extension of Hygiene • Toilets are just a part of Sanitation • Hygiene trait will reflect covering all components

including water, SLWM, Food Hygiene, Home Hygiene, environmental sanitation, etc

• Teaching children about Hygiene will change their family

• Early adaptation of hygienic practices will have life term impact

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Children as the best change agents • Evening JOYFUL Learning centers in

Villages – 520 Children • School level sensitization campaigns • Trainings for children on personal hygiene

& sanitation – 2,000 children • Using psychological techniques of rewards

& reinforcements, Positive Addiction, assimilation in sub conscious brain, activity based learning

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Psychological Techniques of Reward and Reinforcements

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POSITIVE ADDICTION TECHNIQUE 04/10/2023 www.leafsociety.in 13

Assimilation of Hygiene Messages in sub conscious brain through Memory Game….

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OUR JFL Children

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Activity based learning 04/10/2023 www.leafsociety.in 16

Impact study done by LEAF

89%

11%

Are you following personal hygiene diary

Yes No

Yes93%

No7%

Have you shared the Hygiene messages with your family

members?

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Influencing School

89%

11%

Have you discussed abut hygiene messages in school

Yes No

Friends

students

Teachers

all m

embers

60.9

25.8

12.5

.7

If, yes, with whome you have shared?

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Impacts

• Visible change on hygiene behavior among children

• Children are influencing adults to follow basic practices

• More than 70% of the toilets were influenced by Children

• 90% of the children at home uses the toilets & Children also insist adult use the Toilets

• Regularly influencing peers and school mates

Suggestions from LEAF Society

• Inclusion of Hygiene & Sanitation Lessons in School curriculum

• Improving Sanitation Infra in Schools

• Adopting few Hygiene tools on ABL

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THANKS…