Summary:
Personal hygiene are practices performed by individuals to cater for health and well being through cleanliness. Many people equate hygiene with "cleanliness" but hygiene is a broad term including personal habits choices such as how frequent to bathe, wash hands, trim fingernails, change clothing and clean toilets. Also include keeping the environment clean and pathogen free.
Improvements in personal knowledge, skill and practice that modify an individual’s behavior towards healthy practice are the focus of hygiene promotion. Safe hygiene practice includes a broad range of healthy behaviors, such as hand washing before eating and after cleaning a child’s bottom, and safe feces disposal. When you carry out hygiene education and promotion;
The aim is to transfer knowledge and understanding of hygiene and associated health risks in order to help people change their behavior to use better hygiene practices. Also to practice Good environmental sanitation for the prevention of human contact with wastes, for hygienic purposes and promote health through the prevention of human contact with the hazards associated with the lack of healthy food, clean water and healthful housing, the control of vectors (living organisms that transmit diseases), and a clean environment in preventing vector control diseases e.g (Cholera and Malaria).
OBJECTIVES:
To educate women on the importance of good personal hygiene practices
Create awareness on the importance of environmental hygiene
Mitigate cholera outbreak by preventing OD and water related diseases
Reduce the effect of vector control diseases to prevent Malaria
Support women with buckets and soap to promote good personal hygiene
IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE ACTIVITY:
Based on our capacity 38 households were reached in Musanti IDP camp Damboa road Maiduguri Borno state, Creating awareness among women on Hygiene promotion, 1 female from each household attended a session on personal hygiene, Food and Environmental hygiene and at the end of the sessions bucket and soap were distributed to each household were we support 38 households with bucket and soap.
GAPS AND CHALLENGES:
Beneficiaries are soliciting for more support from the relevant agencies and authorities in areas of HP promotion with and to support them with mosquito nets as the raining season is fast approaching in which the rate of mosquito is high during the rainy season, also to support them with sitting mats and most of the women ask for support in Income generating activities to help them cater for their family needs.
There's a need to sustain awareness on hygiene promotion and support the beneficiaries with sanitation kits.
LESSON LEARNED:
There's lack of adequate awareness on Hygiene promotion in the community (Musanti IDP camp)
Some of the beneficiaries were not comfortable during the awareness session because there's no enough mats to sit on.
Practical session should be included for future implementation
There's need for question and answer session for future programming
More coordination for pure implementation
FEED BACK:
APPENDIX:
Kumbal Support Initiative (KSi) is committed with the capacity and support from relevant agencies and authorities to help most vulnerable communities in disseminating awareness and sensitization campaigns in Hygiene Promotion to IDP camps and host communities. Create awareness and sensitize individuals and communities on the importance of Personal hygiene, Food and Environmental hygiene in promoting healthy and resilient communities.
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