Personal hygiene at school is important!

On many occasion, personal hygiene in schools has been neglected both by pupils and by teachers. For this reason, I took my initiative to visits some schools within my town to assess the status of school-going children on personal hygiene.

Do you know what the findings are??

Primary school pupils do not know how to keep themselves hygienically, especially with regard to hand washing. 

With the initiative I made, I was able to sensitize Primary School pupils of Piapir Primary School in Pader District, North Uganda, on personal hygiene. This will help to reduce the spread of communicable diseases among primary school pupils, such as water wash diseases and many others. I am planning to visit other schools and pass them the same health message. Children are receptive to these messages and it is important to teach them about hygiene topics since they are young. In many cases, once they receive the messages, they can also be able to spread them themselves in theirs families, contributing to health promotion.

 

The picture above shows Geoffrey conducting health education to pupils in Paipir Primary school, Pader District.