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Liberia is slowly recovering from the fourteen years of bloodletting civil war that left the country’s infrastructure hugely in ruined, population largely displaced and institutions well dysfunctional. The country also suffered one of the deadliest Ebola Virus outbreak killing hundreds of people. Liberia is still frail institutionally to provide the sanitation and hygiene needs for its approximately 1.6 million school age children. As of the year Two Thousand Twelve, 1,379, accounting for 86.6%, public primary schools in Liberia have no access to water, and 1,106 public primary schools, accounting for 69.4%, do not have access to toilet facilities. All of the public schools combined, and 98% of private schools in Liberia have no functional school health promotion programs. These are serious challenges that are affecting children’s health, growth, performance, and retention in Liberian schools. It is in the wake of responding to these huge school sanitation and hygiene challenges in Liberian schools that Health Education Network Liberia (HEN-L) was established with the goal to remain a vibrant advocacy organization where programs are cascaded from national level to ensure that sanitation and hygiene projects are translated into actions and activities which can be implemented to benefit school pupils.
As registered local NGO in Liberia, Health Education Network-Liberia specializes in building the capacity of students, janitors, and school administrators in school sanitation and hygiene promotion programs.
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