Foundation Inducts 80 Kwara Students As Hygiene Ambassadors

The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), successful collaboration with Dettol, has inducted 80 students successful Kwara’s Ilorin East section authorities country arsenic ambassadors of its Hygiene Quest Programme.

At the event, the WBFA’s manager of Programming and Reporting, Dr Osinachi Onyeoziri, said the inaugural aimed to nurture a civilization of hygiene and wellness among schoolhouse children.

Onyeoziri, represented by Mr Kehinde Akinsola, WBFA’s nationalist programmes manager, said the programme, implemented successful collaboration with Reckitt, producers of Dettol, was designed to make lasting behavioural alteration beyond a one-off workshop.

He said that arsenic a sustainability measure, Hygiene Quest Clubs were being established successful schools and would beryllium led by the inducted ambassadors.

“These clubs volition guarantee that hygiene acquisition and advocacy proceed aft the banners are down and workshops concluded.

“You volition pb handwashing demonstrations, hygiene campaigns, and WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) activities, keeping the momentum alive.

“Your relation is to animate your peers, prosecute your teachers and power your communities due to the fact that you are not conscionable participants, you are leaders, innovators, and changemakers,” helium stated.

During the event, the caregiver educator, Miss Chukwu Roseline, taught the students due handwashing techniques to forestall the dispersed of germs.

In his remarks, the commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Dr Lawal Olohungbebe, described the inaugural arsenic commendable and noted that it would amended students’ wide well-being.

The commissioner, represented by the lawman manager and table officer, Mr Yisa Joshua, urged the students to stock their cognition with their peers.