Agency Inaugurates Environmental Health Clubs In Primary Schools

As part of measures to
improve sanitation in the rural areas, the Rivers State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA) has inaugurated Environmental  Health clubs in all primary schools in  Akuku-Toru and Opobo/Nkoro local  Government Areas.
Chairperson of the Agency  Mrs Chibumma Kukoga who performed the inauguration of a workshop in Port Harcourt said that the Agency in collaboration with United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is deeply concerned with the level of unsanitary conditions in most rural communities.
Mrs. Kukoga said that such unsanitary habits such as, open  defecation  has been linked to several diseases in the rural areas.
She said that the clubs will be charged to take the business of Water  Sanitation and Health (WASH) seriously stressing that they will also be made to embark on campaigns  against open  defecations in their vicinities.
The RUWASH chairperson also urged the representatives of the various schools to ensure that pupils of the  various schools are put online with the objectives.
“This workshop is to prevent diseases. If every one here takes the message of seriously  diseases will be prevented ” she said.
Also speaking  the UNICEF State Consultant, Mr. Thomas Harry said that the objectives of the workshop is to build the capacity of the teachers to ensure the success of the clubs in their various schools.
Mr. Harry also said that the event would promote among stakeholders the benefit of adopting a life skill based education, while providing orientation to members of school based management committees to support sustained  operations and maintenance  of high level hygiene in their various  schools.

Mildred Jaja