Globally, and in our society in particular, one in three people lack a hygienic toilet in their homes. Millions lack menstrual hygiene and vital hand washing facilities. Diarrheal disease, largely caused by poor water, sanitation and hygiene, is a leading cause of malnutrition, stunting and preventable child mortality, claiming around 561,000 lives of children under five annually. Inadequate facilities also affect education and economic productivity and impact the dignity and personal safety of people

especially women and girls.

With so many solutions at hand, the continuing deprivation of so many is a shameful reflection of our society’s priorities. It is worth mentioning that in 1840, the “global sanitary revolution” transformed life in Europe and other parts of the developed world. It furthered economic transformation, by making those societies cleaner and healthier. But many countries especially the developing countries still await a sanitation revolution. Cameroon is not different and our society is in dire need of a

hygiene & sanitary revolution.

The K’s Consulting & Training, with its “Hygiene & Sanitation” project has outlined below, various measures aimed at salvaging the present predicament.

• Increasing the number of people with access to basic sanitation facilities
• Reducing the number of people practicing open defecation
• Improving the affordability and availability of sanitation products and services
• Increasing the amount of fecal waste effectively captured and treated on-site, or collected, transported, and treated offsite
• Improving the ability of educational and health systems to manage sanitation and hygiene facilities in institutions
• Increasing the number of people with safely managed sanitation services.
• Increasing handwashing with soap at critical times
• Increasing the rate of safe management of household drinking water