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Kenya
The Kenya Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Week was launched
with much song and dance, as the Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of Health, Mr. Ezron Nyangito led over 2000 schoolchildren
and parents in the launch taking place in Mukuru slums in
Nairobi. In addition to the launch event, the WASH week included
slum clean-up campaigns, a seminar for public school sanitary
workers, and a variety of media engagement activities.
Madagascar
In Madagascar during Water Week, a TV game show entitled Tsorabisika
addressed different water and sanitation issues each night
of the week, reaching a whole new audience in the public.
The Minister of Energy and Mines launched the Week with a
press conference, and one of the Diorano-WASH coalition members
addressed the senate to present the WASH initiative. Furthermore,
in the centre of Antananarivo a salon was set up for private
sector water and sanitation companies to display their wares
to the public. The salon was combined with speeches and cultural
events taking place in the city's main boulevard. Similar
initiatives were taken in the different regions of the country
where the WASH initiative is active.
Kyrgyzstan
In Kyrgyzstan on the initiative of the WASH coalition, the
Ministry of Education asked each and every school in the country
to partake in Sanitation and Hygiene Week and Water Day events,
such as drawing and writing competitions or school clean-up
campaigns. With WASH materials translated into the Kyrgyz
language, the mass media was approached to help spread information
on the topic 'putting women at the centre', and local branches
of the Ministry of Agriculture's Rural Water Supply Department
organised meetings with the Community Drinking Water Uses
Unions.
Pakistan
In Pakistan on World Water Day, WASH events were organised
in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar, Kabirwala and Quetta to extend
WASH messages to Federal, Provincial and Local government
representatives and officials. All functions were organised
in partnership with school children and their teachers, and
along with the residents of squatter settlements and other
low-income urban wards. The purpose was to extend appreciation
of the meaning of World Water Day from the perspective of
marginalized users and communities.
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