The Importance of Hygiene
January 28, 2014
Children learn proper hygiene techniques from their mothers.
While engineers, technicians and skilled laborers work with the community to design and build a customized safe water solution, our community development team and WASH promoters work with the community to educate them about illness and how disease spreads. The team and WASH promotors teach community leaders about healthy sanitation practices and disease prevention and often hold community-wide workshops to teach basic techniques such as how to properly wash your hands. These efforts tackle behavioral threats to health. Ultimately every household is reached with efforts to promote healthy sanitation behavior.
While hand-washing may seem like second nature to many of us, it’s a behavior that’s taught by mothers to children, and when taught properly can have a dramatic effect on stopping the spread of disease. Think of hand washing as a DIY vaccine—this small act can cut occurrences of diarrheal disease in half.
Our team uses demonstrations and educational materials to teach healthy hygiene habits.
Now that the people of communities of Altamirano have safe water access and an understanding of healthy sanitation practices, they can look forward to a future free of preventable diseases. Our safe water solution will last for decades, but by passing on behaviors like washing hands and safe waste disposal, the change will last for generations to come.
To learn more about how Water Missions International works with communities to teach proper hygiene techniques, go tohttp://www.watermissions.org/educating-individuals.
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