Dig Deep

We build schools and call it progress. Then we wonder why girls stop showing up.

When a school lacks private, safe toilets - and when girls do not have access to information about managing their periods - the school day stops working for them.

It is not dramatic. It is not always visible. But it is consistent. Missed days. Discomfort. In some cases, girls who stop coming altogether.

Across Bomet County, girls are ambitious, committed and capable. The gap is in the environment around them - the facilities, education and information that should be a given, but too often are not.

This month, ahead of World Menstrual Hygiene Day on 28 May, we are sharing more about how Dig Deep works with our partners to close this gap - through school infrastructure, hygiene education, and training that helps communities sustain the change.

Because every girl deserves to stay in school, every single day of the month.

At Jubilee Amani Primary School, learners from pre-school to Grade 7 spent a morning learning something that could save their lives.

Our team delivered a hygiene education session - using games, demonstrations and pictorials to teach children how to wash their hands properly, how to make a tippy tap at home, and how diseases spread through water and poor sanitation.

The children were fully engaged. The teachers were, too.

This is WASH in Schools in action. Not just taps and toilets - though those matter enormously - but the knowledge and habits that make a lasting difference to health.

Across Bomet County, we work in 60 schools, reaching over 20,000 children a year with safe sanitation and clean water. Alongside this, we deliver hygiene and menstrual health education to 33,000 children and their 124,000 family members.

Infrastructure without education is only half the job.