Practical Action: Stop the Spread

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How do we get infected with different illnesses? Micro-organisms penetrate the body’s natural barriers causing diseases.

How do these illnesses spread? One way is through poor hygiene. Do some research into the problems caused by poor hygiene and the importance of hand washing.

Now it's time for your Stop the Spread challenge, focusing on preventing diseases that are spread by hand to hand contact.

Imagine you work for a charity and have received some funding to help pupils in Kenya reduce the spread of disease in their school.

Your challenge is to:

Build a model of a hand washing device that could go in a playground which will enable students to capture rainwater then use it to wash their hands.
Develop education materials which will help children aged 8-11 understand why hand washing is important. This could be a poster, animation, game, play, leaflet.

Visit the Practical Action website in the link below for further resources and information to help you with this challenge.

Access Practical Action website here for further resources and materials.

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