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Learn from Lucia
This is Lucia, who along with her mother, father, four brothers and three sisters received Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) training through a project funded by Plan Australia in Timor Leste. Before, Lucia became ill and was hospitalised with a waterborne disease and diarrhoea. After the training, which included things like handwashing with soap, latrine construction and general good hygiene practice, the family’s health is much improved!
Many children in rural Timor-Leste become sick because they do not have access to safe drinking water and do not understand the importance of good hygiene. Through this project, Plan works in schools and communities to raise awareness about good hygiene practice and increase access to child-friendly toilets and safe water.
Learn from Lucia
This is Lucia, who along with her mother, father, four brothers and three sisters received Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) training through a project funded by Plan Australia in Timor Leste. Before, Lucia became ill and was hospitalised with a waterborne disease and diarrhoea. After the training, which included things like handwashing with soap, latrine construction and general good hygiene practice, the family’s health is much improved!
Many children in rural Timor-Leste become sick because they do not have access to safe drinking water and do not understand the importance of good hygiene. Through this project, Plan works in schools and communities to raise awareness about good hygiene practice and increase access to child-friendly toilets and safe water.