Health and Hygiene

Personal Hygiene & Lifebuoy

Through the WASH Project and Global Hand Wash Day initiative we aim to reach 1 million rural and urban women in South Africa with an educational programme designed to improve their knowledge and understanding of basic hygiene.

We will partner with UNI CEF to undertake a schools intervention, where Lifebuoy will provide educational material and teaching aids for teachers, linking in to an established syllabus module. We plan to reach approximately 80% of South Africa’s primary schools by 2012.

Lifebuoy will work in conjunction with the South African Paediatricians Association to supply educational materials for display and use in the consulting rooms of 400 medical practitioners in South Africa. These materials will promote the importance of washing with soap at key hygiene occasions as a means of reducing the incidence of diarrhoeal and other diseases.

Community Health & Domestos

Through the World Toilet Day initiative we aim to reach areas of high risk in South Africa where diarrhoeal disease is endemic in certain months of the year.

To do this, Domestos will partner with the Department of Health and the World Toilet Organisation (WTO) in an outreach programme engaging health workers in an intervention to follow up on infected children.

We aim to target impoverished community schools, where ablution facilities are lacking, through a partnership with the WTO and the Department of Basic Education, in an endeavour to build capacity and improve conditions for children in selected areas of South Africa. By 2015 we hope to reach approximately 1,000 community schools with this initiative.

Future partnership aims

Opportunities will be sought for engagement with Government bodies and relevant stakeholders to substantially expand the Lifebuoy and Domestos community initiatives, with the target of reaching a minimum of 1 million people each year.