Hygiene Education

Ensuring Healthier Communities

  • Clean water from a well can become contaminated by poor hygiene habits.

  • Hygiene education training improves health and expands the impact of clean water.

  • Our hygiene education program works with community members to identify any hygiene practices in need of improvement.

Learn the Impact of Hygiene Education
Group of children and adults seated outdoors on plastic chairs, engaged in a discussion or activity, with trees and a thatched hut in the background.

Our Training Model

WFSS hygiene educators use a “train the trainer” model.

  • Four women and three men in each village participate in a three-day program

  • Educators help trainees identify hygiene practices most in need of improvement

    • Personal hygiene (washing hands, brushing teeth, clipping nails)

    • Safe water practices (cleaning of jerrycans, covering water containers)

    • Food safety (maintaining utensils, storing food away from waste and dirty water)

    • Safe disposal of waste/stool

    • Women’s hygiene

  • Working together, educators and trainees develop a plan to address community needs

  • Trainees then share new knowledge with other community members

A woman standing and speaking to a seated group of nine people outdoors in a rural setting with traditional huts in the background.
A group of nine people, including women and men of various ages, sit and kneel outdoors under shade trees. They are gathered around a blue water container with a tap, and there is a small patch of white powder or ash in front of the woman kneeling. T
A person in a red shirt giving a presentation to a seated group outdoors in a rural area, with trees and traditional huts in the background.
Group of students and teachers gathered outside, with a woman pumping water from a barrel labeled "Water for South Sudan."

 Video clips on safe hygiene practices

Handwashing
Group of people collecting water from a hand pump in an outdoor setting, with a fence made of wooden sticks and trucks in the background.
Safe Water Practices
A group of people seated outdoors in front of a person giving a health or hygiene presentation with a signage about stopping oral-facial contamination, in a natural setting with trees.
Proper Disposal of Stools
Group of people participating in a COVID-19 awareness campaign about coronavirus disease and symptoms, with banners and informational posters outside a building.
A man wearing a white t-shirt, grey pants, a white cap, and gloves appears to be reading or showing a booklet to another man standing nearby in front of a rustic building with children and dirt ground. Several children are observing, and there are pl
A group of children sitting on blue plastic chairs outdoors, listening to a man standing in front of them, under trees.
A woman in an orange dress stands outdoors, with three men sitting in the background under a tree. She appears to be holding something or performing a task.
A person is washing a small animal, possibly a dog, with water from a blue watering can. Several children watch nearby outdoors on a sunny day.
Two women wearing face masks standing outdoors under a large tree, with a group of people and children gathered in the background.
Group of people at a COVID-19 awareness campaign in South Sudan, with a banner and some supplies.
Four women and a young child standing outside a building, with one woman leaning against the wall and the others standing on the dirt ground. A table with containers and a chair are visible near the wall.
A young boy with a notebook talking to a tall young man wearing a face mask and gloves, holding a notebook and a book. A woman is sitting at a wooden desk, writing in a notebook. Others are seated at another table in the background. The room has a wo
Woman sitting at a desk, writing in a notebook, with various medical supplies and bottles spread out in front of her.
A group of people gathered outdoors beneath trees, with some sitting on the ground and others standing. A man in the foreground is speaking into a megaphone and wearing a mask, while several others, also wearing masks, stand or walk nearby. The setti
Five people seated in a semi-circle in a rustic, partially open room with three large windows and a corrugated metal roof, participating in a discussion or meeting.
Four people sitting outdoors on plastic chairs, wearing face masks, having a discussion. One person is holding a notebook, and there are boxes and documents on a chair and on the ground. Background includes trees, a brick building, and a blue informa
Man in blue shirt and white hat writing on a large whiteboard outdoors, with chairs and papers around.
A classroom with students sitting on blue plastic chairs listening to a teacher standing by a whiteboard.
A woman in a colorful dress operating a manual water pump with a group of men sitting on plastic chairs in an outdoor rural setting.
A group of six people, including a woman and five men or boys, outdoors in a rural area, with one person blowing a whistle toward a large blue container on a stand.
A group of nine smiling people, including men and women, sitting outdoors on blue plastic chairs with trees and sunlight in the background.
Two young men outdoors at a table with a large sheet of paper, one standing and pointing at the paper, the other seated, pointing and looking at the paper, on a sunny day with trees in the background.
Three men working together with a manual water pump in an outdoor setting, with a truck and trees in the background.

Hygiene Awareness Training & Access to Clean Water During COVID-19

Hygiene trainer delivers messages on COVID-19 via microphone to community members
Read a Hygiene Success Story
Nurse accepts hygiene supplies at MMM Women and Children's Hospital
Sponsor a Hygiene Program