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Health & Prevention · Program 02
Health Education & Prevention Workshops
Workshops that build everyday prevention skills in households, and train local volunteers to keep the messaging going.
The need
Preventable illness spreads where information does not. Households often carry the burden of care with little practical guidance.
What we do
- First aid
- Sanitation
- Disease prevention
- Nutrition education for families experiencing food insecurity
- Malaria education
- Diarrhea prevention
- TB awareness
- Hygiene and household practices for disease reduction
- Medication adherence education
- Community-health-worker messaging
- Training local volunteers to sustain messaging
How it works
- 01
Identify priority topics with the community and local health actors.
- 02
Deliver short, practical, hands-on sessions.
- 03
Train volunteers and community health workers to repeat the sessions.
- 04
Reinforce messaging at screening days and distributions.
Community participation
Local volunteers co-lead sessions and continue teaching between visits, adapting language and examples to their own community.
Why it matters
Trained neighbors are the most sustainable prevention system a community can have.