Project Brief: Reap Benefit builds the next generation of problem solvers by involving students in implementing solutions for local environment and civic problems.
Project Type: Community Based Interventions (description)
Primary Focus: health and cleanliness (description)

Secondary Focus: creating resources

Area: Tribal
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Stanford

Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: Arun Chaganty
Project Partner(s): Kuldeep Dantewadia
Project Address: Milaan Be The Change NGO - Reap Benefit
521, 20th Main Road, 4th T Block Jayanagara, Bangalore
20th Main Road
Bangalore, Karnataka 560041
Tel: 080 4117 1468
Stewarding Chapter: Stanford

Reap Benefit's project is selected as the recepient of Asha Stanford's Google Innovation Grant.

Better holistic learning environments and greater attachment to school through: 1- Functional Toilets: •Basic privacy and functionality •Sanitary Napkin Disposal Dustbin •Reduced Odour •Increase hygiene levels •Ownership 2- Increase toilet usage by 50%-70% by the students especially girls 3- Hand Sanitation system 4- Grey Water Treatment: Each school will have a low cost grey water treatment plant which will reuse 50% of water used in campus, reducing water consumption by a similar level. 5- Waste Management: Reduce blockage of sewage and reduce breeding of mosquitoes 5- At a behavioural level take students from a journey unconsciously wrong, to consciously wrong, to consciously right and to unconsciously right 6- Increased attendance and ownership levels in the schools 7- Better schooling experience & hands on experience for the students to co-develop solutions Outcomes: •Students the most important stakeholders in schools, take the initiative to solve problems on their own •Improvement in the health & hygiene conditions •Improvement in learning outcomes •Long term skill development like empathy, problem solving and critical thinking