Education to Poor Rural Indian Child(One year)

Educating students and the village community about the Corona virus, including prevention, safety and treatment

By: K.M. Paliwal

Project:

To educate students about Corona virus prevention, safety and trreatent.

Purpose:

To make students aware about the effect of the Corona virus, how to implement prevention, safety rules, and when and how to get the treatment if infected.

Current situation:

During the normal course, one period in a week is dedicated for a lecture on health eduction, in which general topics about human health are covered. Special education is provided if any seasional epidemics occur like the flu, Malaria, Chickenpox fever, etc.

What we did to improve the situation :

1. In India, the Corona virus started spreading from Feb – March 2020, so we included a short course in the school health education program about the Corona virus .

2. In this course we taught students the following topics orally and through videos:

a. What is the Corona virus?

b. How does it effect the Human body?

c. Precautions to be taken by each individual inside and outside of the house, and within the community.

d. How to observe safety rules.

e. Hospitalization in case of infection by the virus.

f . Symptoms of disease and when to go to the hospital for treatment. 

g. Precautions to be taken before and after hospitalization. 

3. The school purchased senitization equipment and sanitized the school building. 

RESULTS :

1. Students‘ and their families‘ knowledge about the Corona virus improved.

2. Students started taking precautions.

3. Use of masks and frequent hand wash started

4. Maintained social distance and avoided physical contact with each other.

5. Implemented the precaution of avoiding eye, mouth, and nose touching when living with other family members.

6. No Corona infection occured in BDP School students. 

7. BDP School staff, teachers and students started educating village community people. 

THANKS TO DONORS:

The Management and Members of Psycho Educational Society, BDP School students, staff and teachers are grateful of donors who have donated the funds. With the aid of these funds, all these functions could happen and the successful event would not have been possible without it.

Utilization of Funds

The funds available are utilised for training of teachers and students, and executing the  covid program including the prevention of Covid virus in the school and in the local community.

Quotes from Beneficiaries

From this project, both students and the community people were benefited.  They remain free from the Corona virus. They also educated their families as well as others in the community. In general, the people in the village are living a healthy life and obtained the correct knowledge about the Corona virus. They also got free masks, which they really appreciated.