Table 4 School Cycle and shared cleaning in Slums

• Many users and improper use/misuse.

• At any one time, some of the children have diarrheal diseases, under such conditions, they soil the latrines and they do not clean them due to lack of cleaning materials.

• Majority of the children do not clean toilets after use.

• Households sharing facilities with schools faced cleaning and emptying challenges during school days.

• For households with many school going children, their facilities were cleaner when children were at school.

• Quick pit filling discouraged frequent and proper latrine use

• Latrines are relatively cleaner with more adult(s) than child/ren users.

• Day school facilities were cleaner on weekends and (public) holidays than school days.

• Frequent use by young children made it difficult to keep clean shared facilities with children at home the whole day.

• For households with school going children, locking was problematic as keys and padlocks were easily lost by children. This led to unrestricted use by the wider community.