Day 3 - Design For Change

Day 3

Today we had a talk with Akansha ma’am; we discussed about the causes of Diarrhoea and also looked at why we should get this challenge.

The causes that we found out about why children die of diarrhoea were:

• No Access to hygienic washrooms

• Less awareness of medications – take in antibiotics which should not be taken in diarrhoea

• Lack of Awareness – HYGIENE & SANITATION

• How do they wash their hands

• Do they wash hands after and before lunch

• Do they wash hands after using the washroom

• Their Belief system – how do they form a habit and why...

• We do shout outs to appreciate each other 

• We remind each other about washing hands

• Calm ourselves down

• We remind each other for BA

• Have reduced back-biting about each other

• Have started giving equal chances to everybody

• We also shared how in sports session we started off as a tea but in the end we were again arguing with each other

We also thought of observing hand washing habits of younger children in our school to understand where and how do we all learn to wash our hands? We wanted to understand:

We got into pairs and decide to do this observation in their break times at least for a month to see if a pattern emerges.

We reflected back on why should we get the challenge and how are we moving towards getting the challenge. The reflection and the strategies used by us to become a team were:

We haven’t changed completely but we are putting in our best EFFORTS on earning the challenge.