Women delegates gathered in Hanoi on December 19 for a mid-term review of a project on improving community hygiene.
At the meeting, the delegates highlighted environmental sanitationimprovement and the joining hands of the Vietnam Women’s Union andauthorities at all levels in the work.
Theyexchanged experiences in improving community hygiene as well as in theimplementation of the National Programme on clean water andenvironmental sanitation for rural areas.
Carriedout in the ten provinces of Hoa Binh, Hai Duong, Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa,Quang Binh, Ha Tinh, Dong Thap, Tra Vinh, Tien Giang and Soc Trang, theproject hopes to better hygiene conditions for 1.4 million people inrural areas by improving public awareness, calling for hand washing withsoap, waste treatment and utilisation of hygienic privies.
To this end, the project has been setting up a locality-based networkof social workers for the issue along with providing bonuses forindividuals and collectives that perform well in the work.
Nearly 150 training classes opened in nine out of the ten localitiesto aid the work. To date, 25,000 households in the ten pilot provinceshave built hygienic toilets.
Sponsored by the Billand Melinda Gates Foundation, the Community Hygiene Output-based Aidproject (CHOBA) is a joint endeavour between the Vietnam Women’s Union(VWU), East Meets West Foundation and the Health Ministry’s Departmentof Health Environment Management between 2012 and 2015.-VNA
At the meeting, the delegates highlighted environmental sanitationimprovement and the joining hands of the Vietnam Women’s Union andauthorities at all levels in the work.
Theyexchanged experiences in improving community hygiene as well as in theimplementation of the National Programme on clean water andenvironmental sanitation for rural areas.
Carriedout in the ten provinces of Hoa Binh, Hai Duong, Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa,Quang Binh, Ha Tinh, Dong Thap, Tra Vinh, Tien Giang and Soc Trang, theproject hopes to better hygiene conditions for 1.4 million people inrural areas by improving public awareness, calling for hand washing withsoap, waste treatment and utilisation of hygienic privies.
To this end, the project has been setting up a locality-based networkof social workers for the issue along with providing bonuses forindividuals and collectives that perform well in the work.
Nearly 150 training classes opened in nine out of the ten localitiesto aid the work. To date, 25,000 households in the ten pilot provinceshave built hygienic toilets.
Sponsored by the Billand Melinda Gates Foundation, the Community Hygiene Output-based Aidproject (CHOBA) is a joint endeavour between the Vietnam Women’s Union(VWU), East Meets West Foundation and the Health Ministry’s Departmentof Health Environment Management between 2012 and 2015.-VNA
