Wash in schools in Anapolis (GO)

From September to November 2018, a meeting was held with the Anapolis Education Secretariat to present the project and obtain permission to visit the schools. In the same period, a meeting was held with the coordinators of the Biology, Civil Engineering and Chemistry courses at the State University of Goias to request collaboration in the project. The coordinators involved 22 university students in the project.
The group of engineering students evaluated the WASH services of the schools through questionnaire, photos, interviews, and the group of biologists and chemists carried out microbiological collection and analysis of water in the microbiology laboratory of the University.
In October, an undergraduate student in environmental engineering from the University of Pavia (Italy) received a research grant from the university to do part of her thesis on the WASH project in Anapolis.

The next activities of the project are:
- Select the schools with low level of Wash services (no service, limited and basic) for the implementation phase of the technologies (February 2019).
- Meet with the school and local community to present the actions that will be done at the school and ask their collaboration for the proper functioning of the project (March 2019);
- Select Italian students for the mission in Brazil (March 2019);
- Evaluate project impacts in the community: ex-ante, in itinere and ex-post (April 2019, November 2019, June 2020);
- Conduct a wetland pilot project at the rural school for the treatment of sewage (May-December 2019);
- Perform a new microbiological and physical-chemical analysis of the water of the schools (May 2019);
- Evaluate the health of the children through fecal examination and survey (May 2019); ;
- Create a WASH guideline for schools (September-December 2019);
- Conduct a WASH training course for teachers and school officials (September-October 2019);
- To carry out environmental education for the children and a course of educommunication so that they can be agents of transformation in the community in which they live (October 2019-December 2020);
- Monitor the services and / or technologies implemented (May 2020).

The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda recognizes drinking water, sanitation and hygiene as a driving force for progress in many SDGS, including health, nutrition, education and gender equality.
The project is carried out pursuing the criteria for sustainable development:
- Economical: low cost of the plant and exercise, with the possibility of generating income for the school through separate collection and production of soap;
- Technological: use of local materials in the construction and maintenance of the plants;
- Environmental: maintaining ecological integrity by preventing various forms of pollution;
- Health: disease prevention, improvement of community quality of life;
- Social: use of local labor, improvement of the quality of life of handicapped children;
- Political: community participation in the decision-making process.