Thread by @PACIEHNigeria

Did you know that when you eat without washing your hands, the germs that are left on your fingers and palms can be transferred to your mouth and cause infections?

Handwashing before eating is a simple and effective method of infection prevention.
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The provision of equitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene services must not be deemed a luxury, but a necessity that should be accessible to all regardless of socioeconomic status.
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Children in schools need to have access to basic hand washing facilities because they come in contact with germs everyday. Proper hand washing can help stop the spread of many diseases.
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.@PACIEHNigeria's community managed school feeding project included hand washing by pupils as an integral part of the programme. The project ran successfully for 3 years (2013-2016) for 770 school age children in 4 schools in Enugu and Anambra States.
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Our vision is to act as the ‘driving force’ that promotes social safety nets for children.
In 2016, Nigerian Breweries Ltd provided a borehole to Community Primary School, Oma-eke to provide water for hand washing & cooking. The borehole serves a segment of the community & school

@PACIEHNigeria‘s achievements through the hand washing project in Community Primary School Oma-eke is the establishment of wash points for pupils to wash hands before & after school meals. Each class has a wash point-a bucket with tap
The bucket is filled with water every morning

We included the hand washing programme in the Community-managed school feeding project because of the linkage between hand washing and good nutrition. Hand washing before meal impacts positively on the nutritional status and cognition of school children.
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Running a school feeding programme without instituting a comprehensive hand washing programme is rather a harzardous step considering the possible health repercussions on pupils.
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Most messaging on hand washing has been directed at those with adequate water sources. The problem of lack of water is not always addressed.
Can the appropriate authorities & Philanthropists look into constructing boreholes in communities & schools where water is not available?

If the culture of hand washing is institutionalized in primary schools across the country, it can lead to having a sustainable impact-driven school health hygiene programme.

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For a very long time, issues relating to social determinants of health such as water, sanitation and hygiene have been ignored. The current #COVID19 pandemic has clearly highlighted the need for investments in clean water and sanitation around the world.
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Due to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases like #COVID19, hand washing should be a mandatory practice in all schools especially those benefiting from school feeding programmes.
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Hand washing should be the single most important practice in any school nutrition program because it minimizes the risk of passing along parasites, bacteria or viruses that can cause food-borne illnesses.
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In Oma-Eke and other schools, @PACIEHNigeria has trained many school- age children on proper hand washing. Can we scale up this practice and have more of this done in Nigeria?
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Let us turn the #COVID19 pandemic into a unique opportunity for Nigerian school-age children by providing simple washing points, soap and water in all semi-urban and rural schools.
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Primary school children should continue with hand washing in schools after #COVID19. This 'value for money' initiative will inculcate a culture of regular hand washing, improve personal hygiene and significantly reduce the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases in children.

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