30% marginalized women are physically and sexually assaulted to access public toilet According to studies.  70% of teenage girls in Delhi slums experience humiliation every day. Due to a shortage of toilet facility, 23% of adolescent girls drop out from schools. Girls from various government schools in the Capital listed Lack of toilets and hygiene as the reasons to drop out of school.

7 basic reasons why girls drop out of school

• The obstacles multiply as girls get older. Puberty is a challenging time for girls and the situation is compounded by a lack of sanitation facilities in India.
• Girls at school are often forced to share a common toilet with male students. The threats they suffer as a result of this lack of privacy lead many to miss school or drop out altogether.
• Without separate restroom facilities, girls often drop out of school because they don’t have private restrooms and safe places for sanitary necessities
• Poor sanitary conditions and unhygienic toilets in schools lead to girls falling ill with infections like UTI & missing schools.
• Often, schools have poorly designed facilities for girls, disregarding the consideration for the disposal of menstrual wastes.
• About 52% of the female population is of reproductive age and most of them are menstruating every month. The majority of them have no access to clean and safe sanitary products. Or to a clean and private space in which to change menstrual cloths or pads and to wash.
• Lack of appropriate sanitary products may push menstruating girls temporarily or sometimes permanently out of school.

Observation

As ber observation, the lack of Sanitation Facilities has been a major cause for high dropout rates among girl students. The solution to this is to create toilets in schools and introduce female hygienic products.  At the same time devote resources to maintain and clean them regularly.

United Nations World Toilet Day is observed every year on 19^th of November around the globe to address this issue. World Toilet Day is a day to raise awareness and inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. A topic often neglected and shrouded in taboos.

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