I am delighted to launch our new poster today, *Children’s Participation in the Prevention and Control of Diarrhoea*. This poster has been co-created with the *Save the Children* team in the DRC and with a group of teachers working on this topic as part of a broader programme to promote community participation.
Click here to download the poster
https://www.childrenforhealth.org/DiarrhoeaPrevention
The poster will soon be available in French and in Tshiluba (a language spoken in the DRC).
Like our poster on, *Children’s Participation in Action and Learning for Nutrition, this poster visualises the actions that children can take to understand 12 key messages on the topic. We illustrate the support that the programme like this needs. We show the impact that these simple health practices can have on the health of a community. The two-sided poster also sets out the 12 messages on the back and gives ideas on things children can do to spread the messages and helps promote the health for themselves, family and friends.
We have found that our posters are used by teachers and community health workers directly with children, by teacher trainers, by programme planners and managers. Our posters have also been used by those developing training modules.
This is the second of two posters we now have on the topic of Diarrhoea. In the first few weeks since we published our first Diarrhoea Poster, this has been downloaded 491 times, in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Congo, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Jordan, Hong Kong, India,
Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Maldives, Mozambique, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Sudan, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. 371 of these downloads were in South Africa.
Click here for our other Diarrhoea poster in case you have not yet seen it!
https://www.childrenforhealth.org/?smd_process_download=1&download_id=22134
We would love your written feedback on our posters and if you want us to make more, please send images of you using our posters in your workplace. This helps us a LOT to find funding for posters on other topics.
Please do send us your feedback on the poster and share it with your networks.
Many thanks
Clare
CHIFA profile: Clare Hanbury is director of Children for Health (www.childrenforhealth.org). She qualified as a teacher in the UK and then worked in schools in Kenya and Hong Kong. After an MA in Education in Developing Countries and for many years, Clare worked for The Child-to-Child Trust based at the University of London’s Institute of Education where, alongside Hugh Hawes and Professor David Morley she worked to help embed the Child-to-Child ideas of childrens participation in health – into government and non-government child health and education programmes in numerous countries. Clare has worked with these ideas alongside vulnerable groups of children such as refugees and street children. Since her MSc in International Maternal and Child Health, Clare has worked freelance and focuses on helping government and non-government programmes to design and deliver child-centered health and education programmes where children are active participants. Clare has worked in many countries in East and Southern Africa and in Pakistan, Cambodia and the Yemen. Her current passion is for distilling health information for teachers, health workers and others – into simple practical health messages actionable by children.
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Email: clare.hanbury AT zen.co.uk
