Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Hope for humanity outreach Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) includes safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and education about hygiene. These three elements support and strengthen one another and help reduce illness and death, eradicate poverty and improve socio-economic development.
Construction and Rehabilitation of Water Catchments.
Hope for humanity outreach has incorporated its WASH component across all its health interventions. It organizes sanitation drives to generate using live demonstrations, interactive sessions and community engagement programmes. It promotes hand hygiene (6 steps of hand washing), importance of safe drinking water, awareness on prevention of water-borne diseases, personal hygiene and environmental sanitation in communities and schools.
At the community level: Community campaigns, cleanliness drives, sessions on water, awareness on water-borne diseases and forming of health and sanitation committees ensure different target groups are reached with key messages and wash facilities. Awareness talks are held regularly and community members are made to take a pledge where they commit to maintaining proper hygiene and sanitation in their locality. Hand washing sessions are organized regularly in schools and slum areas. Unhygienic conditions are one of the basic reasons of disease and malnourishment in children. Hope for humanity outreach project team is working on the six steps of hand washing awareness sessions that cover hand washing with soap and waste disposal in a simple and effective way to prevent infections, diseases and the spread of germs. We are also working on a project to identified water point so as to provide portable water in communities.
At the school level: Information and behaviour change sessions and campaigns on water, hygiene, sanitation, preventive health measures and other associated issues are conducted with school children. These aim to build their knowledge, awareness and attitudes to adapt and practice correct behaviours to ensure better health. They are also encouraged to become champions of changer change.
We paid a visit to Koke water catchment.
This vital water source, which serves the surrounding community, had faced significant degradation due to pollution and infrastructure challenges.
We are committed to creating a cleaner and healthier environment for communities. Our recent visit to Ndongo, a community in Buea, is a testament to this dedication.