Make a list of things that are needed for the hygiene awareness campaign
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Besides building low-cost latrines to imporve hygiene in the community we need to educate the community on hygiene. We need a list of things that are important in a hygiene awareness campaign.
What needs to be made aware to the community?
What is important when it comes to hygiene (clean toilets, washing hands et cetera)
Project: Construction of Latrines in Sikharpa

Dear Claudia and Rewati
It would be very helpful to have advice on these matters from Rewati:
[1] are there cultural practices that impact on health - ways people do things that make hygeine difficult.
[2] are there water or soil borne diseases? If this is so, there need to be strategies for breaking the cycle. If diseases are entering the skin, the feet, etc, there is a need to look to that. If the main problem is from things put in the mouth, that is simpler, proceed to question 3!
[3] how is water handled? Is there any filtering system for drinking water? Simple small filters can be made with almost no cost.
[4] How is food handled and stored? Do people share bowls? (In China, the government in the 1980s began discouraging people from taking food from a common bowl with the chopsticks they put in their mouths, to reduce hepatitis. Do people reach into one bowl with fingers they put in their mouths?
best wishes
Dennis