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Healthier Children Just a Tippy-Tap Away

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A child using a USAID-supported "tippy tap"
“Our village is clean, and there is less disease, especially in children. I feel very proud when I come away from the bathroom and I press the pedal on my tippy tap.”

For the people of Saré Tening Mara, like many villages in Southern Senegal “going” outside after dark had always been an accepted way of life – but so had debilitating, and someti

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USAID Teams With School for Healthier Students

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A photo of the inside of a "health hut"
Mr. Coly reports that as a result, school absenteeism due to health reasons has plunged nearly 50 percent, from 17 percent to 9 percent.

One of main focal points in the village of Keur Sabassy Thiam in southwestern Senegal near the Gambian border is a “health hut,” a small facility where community-based volunteers provid

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