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The main goal of the program is to improve drinking water and sanitation facilities at 1100 schools in Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. Furthermore, more than 700,000 school children will be taught life skills related to hand washing, clean drinking water and improved sanitation through football- and life skills coaches (WorldCoaches). | The main goal of the program is to improve drinking water and sanitation facilities at 1100 schools in Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. Furthermore, more than 700,000 school children will be taught life skills related to hand washing, clean drinking water and improved sanitation through football- and life skills coaches (WorldCoaches). | ||
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* Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address sanitation issues | * Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address sanitation issues | ||
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| + | ==Hand Washing== | ||
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| + | During our daily activities we pick up invisible intruders on our hands. Therefore, to protect us from infection transmission, it’s necessary to wash our hands. Worldwide around 1.500.000 to 1.700.000 lives could be saved by hand-washing with soap after contact with human excreta. | ||
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| + | Although people all over the world wash their hands with water, water alone is significantly less effective than washing hands with soap in terms of removing germs. Hand-washing with soap is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of infection and is the single most effective way of reducing diarrhoeal illnesses: washing hands correctly at the critical times can reduce diarrhea by nearly 40%. Hand-washing can also help to reduce respiratory problems by 25%, such as skin and eye diseases or worm infestations. | ||
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| + | The '''Hand Washing''' manual will guide you through these critical topics: | ||
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| + | * When to wash hands | ||
| + | * How to wash hands correctly | ||
| + | * What can you as WorldCoach do for hand washing? | ||
| + | * Roadmap (realize, analyze, act) | ||
| + | * Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address hand washing issues | ||
Revision as of 02:51, 12 February 2013
Football for Water is a public-private partnership (PPP) consisting of the following organizations: Royal Netherlands Football Association, Unicef Netherlands, Simavi, Vitens Evides international, Aqua for All, Akvo and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The main goal of the program is to improve drinking water and sanitation facilities at 1100 schools in Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. Furthermore, more than 700,000 school children will be taught life skills related to hand washing, clean drinking water and improved sanitation through football- and life skills coaches (WorldCoaches).
Safe Sanitation
Safe sanitation refers in general to facilities for safe disposal of human faeces and urine. Unsafe sanitation is a major cause of disease. Therefore using latrines properly and stopping open defecation are of high importance for improving the health of your players and yourself.
The Safe Sanitation manual will guide you through these critical topics:
- Stop open defecation
- Good use of latrines
- What can you as WorldCoach do for safe sanitation?
- Roadmap (realize, analyze, act)
- Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address sanitation issues
Hand Washing
During our daily activities we pick up invisible intruders on our hands. Therefore, to protect us from infection transmission, it’s necessary to wash our hands. Worldwide around 1.500.000 to 1.700.000 lives could be saved by hand-washing with soap after contact with human excreta.
Although people all over the world wash their hands with water, water alone is significantly less effective than washing hands with soap in terms of removing germs. Hand-washing with soap is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of infection and is the single most effective way of reducing diarrhoeal illnesses: washing hands correctly at the critical times can reduce diarrhea by nearly 40%. Hand-washing can also help to reduce respiratory problems by 25%, such as skin and eye diseases or worm infestations.
The Hand Washing manual will guide you through these critical topics:
- When to wash hands
- How to wash hands correctly
- What can you as WorldCoach do for hand washing?
- Roadmap (realize, analyze, act)
- Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address hand washing issues
