Foundation Empowers 34 Students In FCT

The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), successful concern with Reckitt Nigeria, has empowered 34 students from 17 section schools successful the Kuje Area Council arsenic Dettol Hygiene Quest Ambassadors, charging them to champion hygiene advocacy wrong their schools and communities.

The inaugural aims to found Hygiene Quest Clubs, enabling students to spearhead Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) activities, heighten hygiene consciousness and behaviour handwashing demonstrations passim schools successful Kuje.

The manager of Programming and Reporting for the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), Dr Osinachi Onyeoziri, represented by the authorities programme pb successful Abuja, Mr. Kelvin Agagbe, emphasised the pivotal relation the pupil ambassadors play successful fostering steadfast habits.

“The extremity is for the ambassadors to pb hygiene demonstrations successful their schools and promote their peers to articulation the clubs, truthful that handwashing becomes a habit, whether astatine school, astatine home, oregon anyplace they find themselves.

“If children imbibe this habit, it volition trim infections and illnesses, which successful crook volition trim absenteeism. When a kid is not sick, they volition beryllium successful school. When a kid is healthy, parents volition not person to divert scarce resources to aesculapian care,” helium added.

Mr Azaki Rabo from the Department of Environment successful Kuje Area Council besides spoke astatine the event, stressing the value of corporate work successful driving sustainable change.

“As we stitchery here, we are not conscionable individuals; we are champions of change, agreed by our passionateness for creating healthier communities.

“This programme volition foster translation among students successful our schools present successful Kuje, arsenic we judge it volition guarantee that they consistently practise bully hygiene,” helium said.

The territory caput of Kuchigbu Community, Mr. Japhet Luka, praised the programme’s affirmative interaction and expressed assurance that the induction league would heighten the capableness of some students and teachers successful promoting bully hygiene practices.