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Emigration and Immigration , Islam , Mortuary Practice , Cultural Diversity , Emigration and Immigration/history , Emigration and Immigration/legislation & jurisprudence , Ethnicity/history , Ethnicity/legislation & jurisprudence , Government Agencies/history , Government Agencies/legislation & jurisprudence , History, 20th Century , Humans , Islam/history , Mortuary Practice/history , Mortuary Practice/legislation & jurisprudence , Public Policy , Religion/history , Social Change/history , Switzerland/ethnologyABSTRACT
PIP: The provision of appropriate water, sanitation, and hygiene education, especially in schools, is very weak in some areas of South Africa. Inadequate education is one of the biggest obstacles to providing sufficient water in the country. The South African Hygiene Education Project (SASHEP) will be implemented during 1996-98 with the goal of developing a child-oriented sanitation and hygiene education curriculum informed by the perceptions of children and adolescents in primary schools. In the first phase of the project, researchers and educators in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern, and possibly KwaZulu Natal Provinces will investigate children's perceptions of water, sanitation, and hygiene practices. Child-friendly research approaches, such as the draw-and-write method and focus group discussions, will be used. The perceived needs for water, sanitation, and hygiene education among primary school students will later be used in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the school hygiene education curriculum and extracurricular activities. Curriculum activities will use methods such as the child-to-child approach.^ieng
