Clean hands!

Last week we gave our first hygiene lesson at the school. We talked about how to do it correctly, when you should do it, and WHY it is so important. Before our little lesson, their method of hand washing was using a shared water bucket to rinse off their hands...some dipped a cup in it and poured the water over their hands, but others just stuck their cute, dirty little hands right in the bucket and swished them around. Talk about a bucket full of germs! (and there was NO soap to be found!) SO, we talked about when and how they should wash and set up each classroom with their own bar of soap and water jug (with a small top so they cant stick their hands in it!). We crowned one person in each class as the “soap master”, meaning they are now in charge of the soap and helping everyone wash their hands. So far it’s worked wonderfully! Now, each class washes their hands with soap before going to lunch. Hopefully this will help minimize spreading around the sicknesses that are so common here. We also gave the students a little bottle of hand sanitizer to keep…something very new to them! So far they’re doing a great job with this new routine, pray that they will keep it up!