UN-Habitat, in collaboration with UNESCO, held an advocacy seminar to promote environment-friendly behaviours among children, empower informal settlements and strengthen the capacity of schools in promoting behavioural change.
The moot, ‘Healthy Schools-Healthy Settlements,’ held here on Wednesday evening, mainly focussed on encouraging healthy hygiene practices among children in schools.
The program was in accordance with UN-Habitat’s project ‘Water, Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Education in Urban Schools through Environment Clubs Project,’ launched in March, 2011 in the urban areas of Karachi and Quetta.
Implemented with support from UNESCO and the government of Pakistan, the outcome of the project is to help transition in formal settlements into healthy settlements.
The seminar focused on empowering children and schools as actors of behavioural change and focused on their attention towards total sanitation, health and hygiene practices and other environment behavioural change activities within their settlements.
UN-Habitat Pakistan Basic Services Manager Kamran Naeem spoke about the model for total sanitation which is a new approach that UN-Habitat uses and the role of schools in sustaining improved behaviours through this approach. The chief guest, Pir Mazharul Haq, Sindh senior minister, education and literacy, appreciated the efforts of UN-Habitat and UNESCO in involving schools in promoting hygienic behaviour changes.
On the occasion, he also identified the problems that exist currently and the need to address them for a better and more productive Pakistan.
3 more suspects
of Nawabshah
bus attack held
HYDERABAD
INP
Police have arrested three more suspects involved in Nawabshah bus attack that left nine people dead.
According to reports, the three accused were held from Hyderabad and Qazi Ahmed on the basis of information received from the alleged mastermind of the attack Ejaz Pirzada, who was arrested earlier. The three were produced before Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Nawabshah district and were taken on physical remand by the police to get more information regarding the firing incident. Police have so far arrested seven people allegedly linked with the Nawabshah incident.
Unknown assailants had opened fire inside a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bound bus, killing Punjabi and Pakhtun passengers.
