Dear Friends
Many of you already know our work but for those who don’t we are all about empowering young adolescents to be health ambassadors in their families and communities.
To help educators of all kinds, and parents too, we co-create posters and storybooks and guides on many different health topics...we do this with experts, teachers and children and in a slow and highly consultative way. Many people from this HIFA \ CHIFA network have helped.
This September we are launching our 'Boxes for Health' campaign - trying to get hard copies of our A3 size, two-sided laminated sets of posters in boxes to schools. Two sets per school = 30 posters. We need around £200 GBP for the two sets per school and all the costs associated with getting that box to the school. We have a bit of funding to start us off and then we will be looking for more. Ideally, we will find funding from local business inside a country e.g. we have contact with a phone company inside Zambia who may be able to help arrange the printing and distribution and fund boxes for health for some schools in Zambia etc.
We are at the very start of this and looking for contacts in Liberia where we have a really great contact wanting to help schools in Konobo District.
Also, we have links with the Ministry of Education in Central Turkana in Kenya and have 103 schools there wanting a box each! Then we have closely allied schools in Eswatini and Zambia too.
If you have any ideas of ways to improve our campaign or local contacts do let us know. I know that UNICEF sometimes gets involved with sending material to schools. This might be a good way to get more of our posters and storybooks out to schools who want them, but we need an introduction.
What do you think?
More information is here e.g. on the campaign, how to register a beneficiary school or a donor school - our topics and how we have created the posters.
https://www.childrenforhealth.org/boxes-for-health/
Thanks a lot. Looking forward to hearing your opinions.
Best wishes
Clare Hanbury
CHIFA profile:
Clare Hanbury qualified as a teacher in the UK and began her career teaching 6-13 year old children in schools in Kenya and Hong Kong. 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 children's participation in health into government and non-government child health and education programmes in numerous countries. Clare has continued to work to promote these ideas as a freelance adviser and trainer. She has worked in East and Southern Africa, Pakistan, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Yemen. In 2013, Clare founded Children for Health, a British Registered Charity that provides accurate engaging health information for those working or living with children and inspiring them to use fun methods to mobilise children as health activists in their families and communities. Clare is a member of the HIFA Working Group on Information for Citizens, Parents and Children. http://www.hifa.org/projects/citizens-parents-and-children Email: clare.hanbury AT zen.co.uk