Project CLEAN Founder to Speak and Study in India
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Project CLEAN Founder to Speak and Study in India
Dr. Tom Keating, founder and coordinator of Project CLEAN, will present a paper at the World Toilet Summit in New Delhi during his upcoming trip to India from 17 October – 15 November 2007.
Keating is scheduled to join 250 delegates from 26 countries during the Seventh World Toilet Summit, where on November 3, 2007 he will deliver a speech titled “Leading Students in School Restrooms from Soap to Citizenship to Improve Wellness.” Nationally known for his work improving the safety, cleanliness, and hygiene of public school restrooms, Keating and 13 others will focus on the theme of School Sanitation while in Delhi.
During his month in India and the November conference, the Clean India Journal, which published a feature article on Project CLEAN last October, will sponsor Dr. Keating at selected schools in Mumbai, where he will speak on school related restroom issues.
Immediately following the four-day Summit, Keating will be trained by the renowned Sulabh International Social Service Organization in New Delhi. Sulabh’s founder and world-wide leader of improved sanitation, Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, has agreed to have Tom work for a week with him and his staff on the many aspects of the Sulabh sanitation reforms.
In 2005 Keating attended the Belfast World Toilet Summit, where he spoke on “America’s School Restrooms: A National Disgrace,” based on his eleven years reviewing and working in school district restrooms in 18 states.
Keating recently commented: “I am honored to visit this historical country which is growing in influence. While half the world’s population has never used a toilet, my concern is with school-age citizens. To be able to learn from other sanitation experts, speak at Bombay schools, and present a paper on Project CLEAN and my five-country study is a rare opportunity. I know this experience will help me learn how to assist students in other countries and to better serve American pupils.”
World Toilet Summit 2007
New Delhi, India
“Leading Students in School Restrooms from
Soap to Citizenship in Order to Improve Wellness in the World.”
By Dr. Tom Keating, Coordinator, Project CLEAN, USA
This presentation has two sections. Part One summarizes the eleven-year history of Project CLEAN in the United States. Part Two describes conditions and selected issues concerning government school restrooms in Belize, Ethiopia, Ireland, Peru, and the United States of America. The presentation covers all five subjects, topics, and issues under part d) “School Sanitation.”
Dr. Tom Keating, an educator with 36 years of experience, will outline the five-step Project CLEAN process used in elementary and secondary schools in Georgia, New Mexico, and Delaware, and other diverse locales within the United States. The address will discuss a range of school restroom issues including user standards, building leadership, and health instruction, all of which have been accomplished
by rural, urban, and suburban public schools.
The major emphasis will be on efforts, which move students from concrete aspects of restrooms such as soap, towels, tissue, receptacles, doors to more abstract characteristics such as school pride and climate, respect, wellness, and citizenship.
Dr. Keating will also share stories based on his in-school experiences, resource support from a business-in-education partner, Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc., and written and video materials developed during the last decade.
The second part will be a descriptive report on conditions and issues in five countries within Latin, Central, and North America, as well as Europe and Africa as found in Belize, Ethiopia, Ireland, Peru, and the United States. This comparative description of school sanitary issues will highlight the status, funding, standards, maintenance, and educational topics included in the section “School Sanitation.”
In short, the paper will begin with a case study of Project CLEAN, explore school sanitation in five countries, and raise policy and program questions for World Toilet Summit participants which will assist their schools and nations
— Project Clean
Press Release
2007-10-11
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