Swachhata Campaigns

Satya Bharti Swachhta and Hygiene Education Initiative (SSHEI) is the extension of the ongoing School Sanitation program being implemented across Satya Bharti Schools since 2017. The key objective of the campaign is to support the cause of “Swacchaa Bharat Abhiyan” movement initiated by Hon’ble Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi by raising community consciousness towards the importance of cleanliness and water conservation.

The program brings together students from across different Satya Bharti Schools as representatives and ambassadors of cleanliness, health and hygiene.

Key activities to be carried out under the campaign are as follows:

• 1. Investiture ceremony of SSHEI Committee
  An investiture ceremony of SSHEI Committee (students committee) was conducted across all Satya Bharti Schools. The committee took charge of school cleanliness, availability of soaps in toilets and encouraging other students to follow hygienic processes such as hand washing etc. Student leaders took the oath as SSHEI committee members and are leading the agenda of cleanliness in their schools and immediate neighborhood.
• 2. Community Level Oath Taking
  Oath taking ceremony for the community members is organized across all Satya Bharti schools villages to involve and encourage the community to keep their surroundings clean and to continuously make efforts to improve the sanitation conditions and conserve water.
• 3. Community Level Awareness Drives
  Students take up community-based campaigns to create awareness in schools, communities and villages about the ill effects of unclean water, poor sanitation facilities, poor domestic and personal hygiene practices etc.
• 4. Cleanliness and Hygiene Checks
  Cleanliness and hygiene checks are conducted by SSHCI committee in their respective villages to assess unclean areas and sources of water wastage and observations to be shared with village sarpanch.
• 5. Hand washing Song and Skit
  Student perform Hand Washing Songs in nukkad nataks and skits to create awareness on the significance of hand washing, bathing and hygiene practices.
• 6. Competitions
  Various competitions like drawing, quiz, poster making etc were held in school premises to encourage children to use their creativity so that they come up with ideas to not only keep their surroundings neat and clean but also conserve water. Satya Bharti Abhiyan to also engage with DWSS to roll out poster competition in rural Amritsar schools.
• 7. Participation of key government officers and other local representatives
  Members of local Panchayat and community members and District Education Officers, senior officials from Water Supply and Sanitation Departments, Health Inspectors, journalists, Social Workers etc participated in celebrations. They delivered messages on the importance of personal hygiene to the community in daily life, encouraged students to participate more in such campaigns, events, importance of using toilets.