Health and hygiene education

There are many reasons I’m glad to take on the responsibility of being a child sponsor. Not only are the children being provided with clothing and needed food items as well as helping with the cost of their schooling, the child sponsorship organization is able to help these families with basic healthcare needs for their children.

These children have access to a doctor, dentist, vaccines and medicine, as well as health and hygiene education.

Telling children to “Wash your hands before eating.”, “Don’t walk barefoot through the dirt and mud.”, and making sure families boil water before drinking or cooking, seem simple, but they are the most common source of parasitic contamination. 

Most families in these impoverished communities have never been informed on basic hygiene steps they can take to avoid parasitic infections and the many illnesses that could follow.

Parasites are everywhere and poor hygiene habits in areas that have contaminated water and soil and lacking proper sanitation systems increase the possibilities of parasitic infections in these families and their children.

An important goal in each of these sponsorship communities is to keep kids healthy with hygiene education, doses of anti-parasitic medication as well finding solutions to improve the community’s sanitary conditions.

I’m very glad to be such a small part of that initiative.