Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria

Dear Supporters, friends and family of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,

Global Handwashing day came and our continued trainings on hygiene improvement amongst the children of Gadan was a welcome developement as the day reinforced all our campaign for keeping their hands clean. Of particular note is a story we have of Hansau (Not real name) who has never gone to school in her entire life yet she is one of our advocates for being clean.

Hansau starts each day walking about with a bar of soap in her hands to remind everyone on the need to wash their hands with soap; we noticed her during the campaign and asked her why she had a bar of soap in her hand and she said in the local language "Ai, na ga wanke hannu na da sabulu ya kara min kyau don bani da dauda kuma ba da kowa na gani" literal transalation is "I have seen that washing my hands with soap has made me pretty as I no longer have dirt on my body as everyone can see". Hilarious it was but she was pretty serious about it and refused to drop the soap for a second. We asked the father for how long she had been carrying on like this and he said for the past one month since our last training; now all the children want to be like Hansau he said.

Apart from our marking the global handwashing day, work has started on building a sand dam in the community to take advantage of the rains that fall during the season; two sites have been identified within the community and we called in some geological surveys to evaluate if the site would be good for the sand dam. We are yet to get the report back on the survey whence the community with the help of the local governing council can start working on building this dam which will go a long way to helping them access more water for the community.

We want to sincerely thank YOU our supporters, friends and family for being there for us thus far, for the feedback, for advice on how to do things better, however we still need your help to fulfill our goal and target of achieving access to water for the children of Gadan with the trainings on good hygiene practices to make their lives better.

You can follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1 or like our facebook page/serenhealthcare or simply drop us an email at serenhealthcare@gmail.com. We are currently updating our website to serve you better and will let you know as soon as it is concluded.

 Yours faithfully,

Samirah Faruk

Project Leader

Links:

• Handwash