The toilet that keeps a child home A broken lock, no water supply, a facility that simply isn’t safe to use — any one of these is enough to make a student, often a girl, start skipping school rather than risk it. It’s rarely framed as a dropout problem, but that’s exactly what an unusable…
A locked, broken, or missing toilet rarely makes headlines, but it quietly decides whether a girl stays in school past puberty. Across India, poor sanitation infrastructure remains one of the most overlooked barriers to education, especially for adolescent girls, who often drop out or stay home simply because there’s no clean, private, and safe toilet…