Via Radio Okapi: Back to School: UNICEF to Train 1750 Teachers on Ebola Prevention. Excerpt from the Google translation:
Principals and teachers will receive training on Ebola prevention and protection and how to educate children on good hygiene practices to prevent the spread of the virus in North Kivu provinces and Ituri, UNICEF announced on Tuesday.
To ensure schools in affected health areas are well-equipped, UNICEF will distribute laser thermometers, handwashing units, and megaphones and prevention posters, says the UN Children's Fund.
UNICEF and its partners are collaborating to:
• train school directors and more than 1,750 teachers in affected health areas, on illness and virus protection measures;
• organize awareness-raising activities for parents' committees and local authorities on prevention measures in each school concerned;
• prepare teachers to sensitize all children at the beginning of the school year to good hygiene practices to contain the spread of the virus;
• distribute 500 laser thermometers - 2 in each school - to monitor the health status of children;
• install 1,500 handwashing units - 6 in each school - to promote handwashing and hygiene;
• distribute megaphones and prevention posters in each school.
"Education is a right for every child and is essential for children to develop fully. Especially in times of crisis such as an Ebola outbreak, schools are important for children to find stability, learn preventive actions and receive psychosocial support, "said UNICEF Representative Dr. Gianfranco Rotigliano. in the DRC.
