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Sanitation and Hygiene
Education Programme in Schools
CEE, with support from UNICEF, Zilla
Panchayat and KRWSSA (Karnataka Rural Water Supply and
Sanitation Agency) has taken up a project "Educational
Programme on Health and Hygiene practices" in schools
of Tumkur, Chikmagalur, Gulbarga, Mysore and Kolar,
districts in Karnataka. The programme involved a series
of residential teacher training programmes covering
about 2500 teachers and a series of three-day Children's
camps in schools, covering 5200 students to promote
better health and hygiene practices among school children.
Teacher
Training Programmes
This programme targeted at Higher
primary school teachers and aims at capacity building
the teachers to create awareness on health and hygienic
practices among the school children, help motivate children
to use and maintain sanitation facilities at schools,
inculcate better hygienic practices and make the students
to understand the importance of keeping the school and
home premises clean.
As part of the project, CEE has developed
several education materials on school sanitation programmes
such as activity based manual for teachers; water conservation
chart, game chart on hygiene practices, 2 posters, 2
sets of banners etc. These educational materials were
distributed to all the teachers who participated in
the training programme.
During the two-day residential programme,
teachers were oriented to various aspects of health
and hygiene education. In order to communicate effectively
various approaches were used, which would help them
in turn train students. These include demonstration
activities, lecture sessions, field visits, slide shows,
educational games, group work, screening of films etc.
Towards the end of the programme, teachers developed
an action plan to implement the programme in their respective
schools.
Children's Camps
As a part of this project, a
total of 104 Children's camps were also organized in
Tumkur , Chikmagalur, Gulbarga and Mysore districts
of Karnataka. About 5200 students of higher primary
school participated in the 3-day camp conducted in the
respective schools. During the camp, several relevant
approaches were made to effectively communicate the
messages of water, sanitation, health and hygiene like
demonstration, games, hands on experiences, survey and
analysis, field visits, awareness campaigns, screening
of movies etc. Several educational materials on water,
health and hygienic practices such as 'Act Now' booklet,
booklet on songs, stickers, badge, game charts, etc.
also distributed during the camp.
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