Impact of Water and Sanitation in Kano School

‘I no longer have to beg my friends for a few sips of water when my supply runs out (she laughs)...in fact, I no longer have to carry a water bottle from home’. For Aishatu Abdullahi, a 15 year old pupil of Gobirawa Special Primary School in Fagge Local Government Area of Kano state, going to school is a better experience.

Her school is among the 20 schools in the state that benefited from the ESSPIN-supported borehole project. Before the intervention, the children trekked as far as five kilometres to and from school with plastic containers filled with water. With serious overcrowding at Gobirawa (11,962 pupils, 114 teachers and 30 classrooms), lack of clean water was a major problem

Now the school is equipped with a 22,500 litres, 10 pump, solar -powered borehole to the delight of the pupils and teachers.

The Water and Sanitation programme is part the School Development Plan, a larger design where target schools pilot a package of reform initiatives to improve the quality of teaching and management of the school as well as provide better facilities.

Aisha hopes to see proper infrastructure, “The water is a good beginning, I pray there is more to come, and my teacher tells me there is more to come.”