Home Hygiene – Africa AHEAD

Description of the Training

This topic provides 14 images of recommended good home hygiene practices. The cards are used to help prompt participants to discuss some of the ways that people should keep themselves and their homes clean, with the objective of understanding that many diseases can be prevented by good home hygiene.

How to use Rural Card set 4. ‘Home Hygiene’

Using the ‘Last One Standing’ Method, ask everyone to stand
Hold up each of the cards in turn and ask, “Who does this?”
Those who do NOT do the good practice on the card sit down
Those who remain standing are congratulated for doing those good practices.
Count how many claim they are doing all the good practices
Discuss each picture and how it can be achieved
Repeat the exercise next week and see how many more people are left standing

Rwanda 13_10 — 1. Washing up the dishes

Rwanda 13_06 — 5. Dispose of rubbish in a pit and burn it

General Hygiene_Zimbabwe_0004 — 9. Make sure drinking water is covered

General Hygiene_Zimbabwe_0006 — 13. Boil more drinking water if necessary

Rwanda 13_13 — 2. Cleaning work surface and cooking utensils

General Hygiene_Zimbabwe_0016 — 6. Pour the ash down the latrine

4.a. Handwashing Method (10) — 1.a.9.Tippy Tap with soap

Rwanda 5_15 — 14. Wash all bedding and put out to air

Rwanda 13_11 — 3. Putting away all left over food where flies cannot access it

Rwanda 13_05 — 7. Sweep the compound

General Hygiene_Zimbabwe_0018 — 11. Clean toilet with disinfectant

Rwanda 13_04 — 4. Throwing away rubbish in a covered bin

General Hygiene_Zimbabwe_0005 — 8. Collect clean drinking water

General Hygiene_Zimbabwe_0014 — 12. Make sure the squat hole is completely covered

Facilitator instructions for Home Hygiene (Rural) in English:

Rural Home Hygiene Facilitator Instructions