Buffalo City Municipality launches awareness campaign for children
Effective sanitation tips for pupils at Pefferville Primary School in South Africa are teaching potentially life saving hand washing techniques according to a recent report on the Dispatch Live website.
The campaign has been provided by the department of water and sanitation, Buffalo City Municipality and Amatola Water ays the article. Representatives of BCM’s department of health demonstrated a hand-washing exercise to ensure pupils were practising good sanitation.
The importance of saving water
Phumza Batyi from the department is quoted as stressing the importance of efficient hand washing.
“Water is life. We can’t live without it and we need to take care of it.”
Pefferville Primary principal Mason MacKay, says the report, was also keen to emphasise the importance of hand hygiene.
“Because of the situation in our community where people often just litter all over the place, it is important to introduce to the children that a simple thing like washing your hands is important and can avoid serious illnesses.”
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The photograph (above) shows pupils at Lorraine Primary School washing their hands with a water-efficient KiddiSynk.
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