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Afram Plains Development Organisation

Contributed by A Modoc 12/2004 (local director of the project)
Email: kmodoc2002@yahoo.com
A further contact through WaterAid is: joycedanquah@wateraidghana.org

Report on Child-to-Child activities

“Over the past years since the introduction to Ghana of the Child-to-Child process APDO has used it in most of the activities, especially in the school health programmes and they support a lot of Districts and Organisations in the use of the approach. Recently we have introduced the approach to an environment project which we are implementing using the UNDP Small Grant project.”

These are some specific activities undertaken in the Afram Plains area

In and from Schools

• Personal Hygiene activities, especially handwashing emphasised from child to child and spread by Health Club members reaching communities where changes in practice are being observed.
• Hand-washing containers and towels with soap purchased by PTA and health club.
• Drama on Hygiene.
• Environmental hygiene, e.g. picking up plastic waste emphasised and activities taken to community.
• Flower planting to beautify school environment.
• Promoting use of energy-saving stoves.
• Poster making to promote awareness of practices which contribute to spread of HIV/AIDS and which promote avoiding it.
• Role-playing on risk behaviour forums to include teachers and children.
• Preparation of school-based hygiene action plans.

Training Activities
(In centres)

Training teachers on the Child-to-Child process in schools (especially the six-step approach).

Capacity building workshops in the Child-to-Child process for ten schools. (230 pupils; 10 Clubs; 20 Teachers).

Material Production

Encouraging and enabling clubs and teachers to make their own materials.

Activities undertaken by the project organisers wider than the project area

• Training 700 teachers in the six step approaches

• Training of WATER AID partners (8) Ghanaian NGOs

• Training of School Health Education Program officers in 7 Districts

• 70 Trainers for 70 staff of NGOs, Ghana Education Service, Ghana Health Service.

• Establishment of 50 school health clubs

Note: The NGO reports using most available Child-to-Child material including readers (acquired initially when organisers attended a course at Child-to-Child, London in the late 1990s. This organisation assisted by UNICEF and more recently by UNDP sets out to improve health education in a poor and remote area of central Ghana. The report above was sent in January 2005 and the central section has been summarised since it detailed at some length the activities of each of the 14 schools where the activities were carried out.

Date: 2005
Source: Afram Plains Development Organisation