Media Update: WASH Club Reflection Day

Pohnpei State Department of Education: On June 15, 2023, the Australian Embassy in Micronesia, Pohnpei Department of Education, College of Micronesia and UNICEF gathered at the Island Palms Hotel Conference Room to discuss the strengths and accomplishments of the FSM WASH in Schools programme. Teachers and principals shared the most significant change that they've observed among the students through the WASH Club.

"With the presence of the WASH club, we saw many changes such as the importance of access to clean water. Being part of the water testing that our children participated in was very eye-opening for us," said one of the school principals.

"Australia has been so pleased to support this. It’s one of the most interesting and impactful programs that we have done in a while," said Australian Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, H.E. Jo Cowley

UNICEF thanks Australia for providing the pathway for students to become agents of change who will ensure that the community lives in a clean, green, healthy, and sustainable world.

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On 16th June 2023 Cromwell Bacareza, Chief of UNICEF North Pacific Office, handed over to the Pohnpei State government child wellbeing resources, which included 23 boxes of teaching learning and play materials and 6 sterilizer units and other health supplies.

Receiving the donations on behalf of Governor Reed B. Oliver, Pohnpei State Director of Education, Stanley S. Etse appreciated UNICEF’s continuous support to the children of Pohnpei. He said that especially the school in a box and ECD kits would greatly benefit the children in the outer islands and remote schools of Pohnpei.

Representing the Department of Health and Social Affairs, Dionis Saimon, emphasized the importance of sterilizers to support the health and wellbeing of the people.