World Best Hygiene Education Story

Impact Study: By MUHAMMAD ASIF

GPS Qadiraba

U/C:  Sahan Wala

 Village: Basti Mashoori

GPS Qadirabad is a school of U/C Sahan Wala Village Mashoori. In said school all the children resident of rural basties are reading. The whole community specially children are in the danger of water borne daises due to flood and unhygienic condition of personal, domestic and environmental hygiene. This school surveyed by Save the Children hygiene promotion team and start delivering orientation and hygiene session to empowering and convey the hygiene messages to the children reading in this school.

                         

Due to unavailability of any facility and information regarding health and hygiene the dieses were increasing day by day. All the children were not cutting there nails, brushing teeth, washing hand, using toilet and as a result a lot of daises took place day by day. Maximum students were not adopting such kind of practices. Several time SC Hygiene team members visited this school and delivered health and hygiene sessions and conduct multiple related activities/role plays. We also established a children hygiene club in this school consisting of 11 students (boys and girls).

On 4 May 2011 I went in that school along SO Ms. Munawar Sultana for a follow up activity but there I saw a girl named Shanza Bibi reading in class 5^th which is the member of hygiene club was busy in conducting the Health and Hygiene session and recreational activities session to all the students. When I asked some questions from Shanza Bibi which are as under:-

a.         Why you are doing so?

She replied that we were so dirty before these activities and information and after this we feel very happiness that we look so beautiful, healthy, our figures looks so beautiful and charming due to nail cutting, our teeth looks clean and we feel fragrance while breathing, washing hand, our hands looks very beautiful, due to wearing clean dress we look very charming and beautiful and after all we have no pain in our body, feel no disease.

When it was asked to other students that what are they feeling?. Many students replied that when we adopt these good hygiene practices we will be healthy then we can do each and everything and said that our health is in our own hands. They also said, “We will try our level best to adopt ourselves these practices and motivate all of our family members and our friends children to adopt and make their habit to practice such kind of good behavior hygiene activities. As this is utmost necessary to be and remain healthy. They also added.

 “The Hygiene information and tools provided by SC Hygiene staff is really benefited us towards maintaining our personal, domestic and environmental hygiene and we are feeling fresh and healthy.