ABSTRACT

Sanitation is vital to a community's health, lifespan, and economy. It's essential to a healthy community. Sanitation practises including toilets, latrines, and mechanical wastewater treatment contain or dispose of human excreta (and grey water) to protect human and environmental health. "Upgraded" sanitation access was renamed "basic" in 2015. "Upgraded" sanitation includes water cisterns, VIPs, trenches, soak away, and septic tanks that keep "human excreta from human touch" in a "healthy manner." Only contemporary, private restrooms provide safe sanitation. This study evaluates students' environmental sanitation knowledge, attitudes, and actions. A cross-sectional survey, structured observation, and in-person interviews assessed participants' sanitation and hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practises. Simple random sampling, which draws from a population of entities in which each entity has the same probability of selection and different entities are selected individually, gives each entity an equal chance (a probability greater than zero) of being selected in the sample. A probability sample gave us better accuracy than a random pick. This analysis shows that X2 is more than 3.84 with one degree of freedom and a 0.05 level of significance. Students' sanitation knowledge and attitudes correlated strongly, disproving the no-correlation null hypothesis. It's apparent that children are aware of bathrooms, yet their attitudes and behaviours towards using them remain unfavourable, producing major environmental concern. Proper hygiene should be taught and promoted to pupils. Educating and engaging pupils need greater creativity.