Anambra State Social Mobilization and Technical Committee, SOMTEC, a UNICEF-assisted project domiciled in the state Ministry of Information, has embarked on orientation of Household Interpersonal Communication Outreach, HIPC, on the need for disease prevention and to avoid violence against children at flood affected communities in Anambra State.
The orientation is the second phase of the Social Behavior Change, SBC, Post Flood Emergency Intervention in more sixteen communities in the seven-flood affected local government areas as fifty communities from seven council areas had benefited from the first phase in January 2023.
Speaking on the programme , the SOMTEC Project Desk officer, Ministry of Information, Mrs. Grace Onwukwe, said that the second phase started with the training of ten persons per community from sixteen other communities within the same seven flood affected council areas which formed the HIPC outreach team members.
Mrs. Onwukwe explained that the HIPC outreach team members, who were under supervision by relevant stakeholders, embarked on house-to-house sensitization, Enlightening members of flood affected communities on preventive measures to contain post flooding effects such as diseases and infections.
For a resource person, Mrs. Chineze George-Ileka, families were sensitized about healthy living/hygiene habits such as Effective hand washing, Safe excreta disposal, Environmental sanitation, Water treatment and watchfulness to prevent Violence against children.
She reminded the HIPC team members that as the foot workers in their various communities they are the voice of their people and resource persons that could be trusted.
Mrs. George-Ileka, who further informed them to expect the distribution of Water treatment chemicals from the state government, encouraged the people to always boil, cool and filter water before drinking.
It could be recalled that year 2012 and 2022 witnessed severe flooding which affected many communities and resulted to loss of lives, hence the untold hardship and possible outbreak of preventable or non-preventable diseases such as cholera, typhoid, malaria, pneumonia, cough among others.
The event climaxed with enlightening community members on the need for parents and guardians to stop subjecting their children or wards to unwarranted severe punishment in the name of correction.
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