Child Writes_Volume 6, Issue 2

Quarterly newsletter
Save the Children initiates
Child Focused Health Education in Lodhran
Farman Khan
Government staff during nutrition training on Child Focused Health Education methodology.
Lodhran: Field staff / Save the Children
Child Focused Health Education (CFHE) is an initiative of Save
the Children which promotes children's participation in all health
promotion activities in school and at home. This methodology
develops critical thinking, problem solving and decision making
skills, communication and empathy in children.
Save the Children in implementing this intervention in 200
government primary schools of district Lodhran as part of IKEAfunded
project. 400 school teachers have been trained on CFHE
and they are conducting sessions for school children on weekly
basis. The CFHE curriculum includes the following 14 topics: clean
hands, safe drinking water, intestinal worms, dengue, malaria,
menstruation, hygiene management, cough and cold, diarrhea,
iodised salt, flies, clean teeth, eyesight, hearing, balanced diet.
The Project is being implemented in close coordination with the
district government and its sustainability is a major consideration
for all parties. For this purpose, the district government requested
the project team to train 43 School Health and Nutrition
Supervisors on CFHE methodology and now they will be
engaged in monitoring these sessions in 200 project targeted
schools and replicate the same in all other schools of the district.
Engaging these supervisors will ensure sustainability of CFHE
and will also help to scale up the project on a district level. The
district government has vowed to ensure that the school teachers
conduct the sessions on a weekly basis and raise awareness of
children on critical health issues.
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