By Paul A Bangura | Hygiene Team Leader
ChildHelp Sierra Leone Report
Reported period: September to December 2016
Project title: Hand washing saves Lives
Project Summary
ChildHelp Sierra Leone requested for funding support through GlobalGiving to put sinks in the classrooms and teach the proper technique with soap to school children in the rural North.
Without having funds yet, the hygiene team was working in the rural villages and reaching out to the most affected communities with messages on hand washing and how they should help themselves free from the many illnesses.
Sensitization on poor hand hygiene was undertaken in 9 communities with a population of 2,133 school children in 11 primary and community schools including children in the communities left behind to go school.
Due to the sensitization and forth night campaigns, school children and those non-school going children were able to know of salmonella, campylo-bacteriological (cause of food poisoning), flu, diarrhea and sickness, the common cold, and impetigo which as some of the viruses and infections passed between people who do not wash their hands properly with soap.
The hygiene team is looking forward to financial support to take the message to other schools that are far away and out of reach communities, and would need mobility and sensitization support. Without these, the exercise would be delayed reaching the school children with the message of getting free from all manners of sicknesses caused by lack of not washing hands.
Constraints: lack of finance support for mobility and workshops for teachers and community elders, training materials, sinks, buckets and soaps etc
Achievement: School children, teachers, community people and parents have started to know and how to do away with the 80% of diseases which are environmental and related to water and sanitation. Through this sensitization, the health of schools and their communities are now improving with greater school attendance. There is now a serious commitment taken by the communities in how to handle the issue of hand washing and promise to continue such activities when the team phases out where the project has started.
Thanks prepared by: Paul A Bangura, The Hygiene Team Coordinator.
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