translated from Spanish: Schools with water services challenge for SEE Michoacán

Michoacán.- According to data from the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) only 62 per cent of education campuses in Mexico have water every day of the week, 19 per cent lacked sufficient toilets for students and 58 per cent did not offer safe drinking water.
Therefore, only 40 per cent of school toilets in the country have adequate cleaning and safety conditions for girls, boys and adolescents.
In Michoacán, the last record reported that at least 300 schools do not have the vital liquid, so the Secretary of Education in the State reported that around 300 tubs and cisterns are currently being installed in schools that were identified with deficiencies in these inputs. UNICEF, CONAGUA and Cantaro Azul also received equipment for 41 schools.
In this context, the Secretary of Education in the State, Héctor Ayala Morales today held a work tour in the municipalities of Tangancícuaro, Ecuandureo in which he signed agreements with the municipal presidents.
The agreements are intended to carry out maintenance works in schools proposed by the buildings to which they were equipped with toilets, sinks, drinkers, cleaning material, tubs, hoses, hydraulic pump, paint buckets, among others.
“It’s about teaming up to improve the conditions of the municipality’s schools. To agree that the payment of the water service made by the Ministry of Education (SEE) to the City Council, is in kind, through the realization of maintenance works of municipal schools, mainly to make water, that indispensable resource to guarantee the health of our students, reach educational spaces”, said Ayala Morales.
According to UNICEF when the COVID-19 outbreak began worldwide, three out of four children did not have basic hand-washing services at their school; half of all children lacked basic water services; and more than half did not have access to a basic sanitation service.

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