Community awareness

One of the first challenges in Hangomba was to raise awareness of the need for proper hand sanitation and how it can improve their health and livelihood.  We made small leaflets on 1/4 sheets of paper to hand out in the community.  This leaflet invites them to a community action day in the village to learn about hand hygiene and sanitation.

Swahili:  Usafi wa mwili mikono na mazingira

Translated: hand hygiene and sanitation

One of the posters we made for the community day showed the 12 steps of proper hand washing. This was also put to the tune of the Hokey-pokey song to present to the village. 

We also setup several tippy-taps which use a stick to tip the bottle to provide a hands-free water rinse for hand sanitation.  All the kids and several adults really enjoyed using these. 

This is a picture of two regulars using the camp tippy-tap. We nicknamed him "Fred" because of his favorite t-shirt. His sidekick behind him we nicknamed "Ray" because of his shades. 

At the school we had a sports day including a relay, soccer goals shot, 3 legged race, egg&spoon race, and of course a tippy-tap demo. 

This is a picture of James counting down in Swahili to say 3-2-1 Go ( tatu, mbili, moja, Kimbia! )

Instead of wasting eggs we used rocks and made "spoons" from forked branches with string tied across in a mesh.   We would have broken 100 eggs that day since most of the rocks hit the ground at the start and at the turnaround point.