Wife of the Governor of Anambra State, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has highlighted the importance of closer monitoring of hostel activities in schools, including hygiene habits of students and general cleanliness of the hostel environment.
The governor’s wife stated this at Girls’ Secondary School, Awka, during the kick-off of her visits to major boarding schools in the State.
The visit, among other things, was to ascertain the living conditions of the students and to donate household materials that will aid their hygiene practice and protect them from diseases.
Among the items donated to the hostel were sanitary pads, antiseptic soaps and disinfectants as well as insecticide treated nets.
Speaking during the event, the governor’s wife explained that the plan is to visit over twenty-eight boarding schools across the three Senatorial Districts of the State.
She spoke on the importance of keeping the hostels clean and asked schools to increase monitoring of hostel activities, especially students’ lives and health.
Mrs Soludo also noted that having successfully set up Healthy Living Pad Banks in over three hundred and fifty secondary schools in the State, the plan is to continue to engage with schools to see possible ways of bringing healthy living closer to pupils and students.
She further stated that hygiene is a primary pillar of the healthy living crusade, emphasizing that with the planned launching of healthy living clubs in primary schools in the State, the issue of hygiene will be taken more seriously.
Commending the governor’s wife for the gesture, the Principal of Girls’ Secondary School, Awka, Dr Ndidi Okeke, explained that the benefits of Mrs Soludo’s Healthy Living movement is currently being felt around the State, noting that by taking it to schools, the campaign has been strongly fixed to outlive tenures.
The Chairman of Post Primary Schools Service Commission, Professor Nkechi Ikediugwu, was part of the visit.
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