By Miyako Hamasaka | PR Manager
This November, as we complete the rehabilitations and hygiene campaigns (hygiene education workshops for teachers, hygiene kit distributions, etc.) to all schools, we have conducted questionnaire surveys. JEN staff has conducted surveys among headmasters of the school and 10 students from each grade in each school. Same surveys were conducted also before the initiation of the project so that we can identify the changes in answers and assess the impact of our project.
We have confirmed from the survey that most of the objectives in this project had been achieved. We also received appreciations from school administrations to the improvement in school environments. The changes have brought out more students having hygienic behaviors and following hygienic practices and brought interest in maintaining their personal hygiene and clean school environments. It is a great pleasure for us to see students writing positive answers on a survey sheet and find joy and happiness on their faces while they sing a song to appreciate our works.
We have been carrying out project to support the education sector in Iraq since 2003. We started our work from Bagdad and have broadened project sites over other 4 governorates outside Baghdad in 2010. Till today we have rehabilitated school facilities and implemented hygiene education activities to over 200 public schools in 5 governorates. However, education sector in Iraq still needs more support.
From December 2013, JEN have set up a new project to continue and expand our activity to have students acquire hygienic behaviours such as washing your hands, gargling and brushing your teeth. We hope that more students will learn how to protect themselves from catching diseases and how to improve their health conditions in order to continue studying and learning at schools.
We will work among approximately 650 teachers and 8,000 students in 18 schools in Anbar, Diwali and Kirkuk Governorate to implement hygiene education classes and activities. We also rehabilitate water and sanitation facilities in 3 schools, which have been dysfunctional for a long time that cause an extremely unsafe environment to children. We also have a new activity. We will encourage the Departments of Education in the respective governorate to understand the importance of monitoring and maintenance of school buildings and facilities. We hope that this new activity will initiate an attempt to have all rehabilitated and newly constructed school buildings in Iraq to go through monitoring and maintenance so that they will continue being a safe environment for children as long as possible.
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