Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Division of Leyte
Tolosa, Leyte

TOLOSA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

ACTIVITY COMPLETION REPORT

I. Identifying Information:

Activity Title: GLOBAL HANDWASHING DAY (October 15,2016)

Type of Activity: Global Health Awareness among Students as part of the Public

Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap (PPPHW)

Proponent: Junior and Senior High School Tecahers, Student Leaders

Beneficiaries: Tolosa National High School Junior and Senior High Students

Total Expenditures: None

II. Executive Summary

The inaugural Global Handwashing Day will revolve around schools and children. Children suffer

disproportionately from diarrheal and respiratory diseases and deaths. But research shows that

children – the segment of society so often the most energetic, enthusiastic and open to new ideas –

can also be part of the solution. Ideally situated at the intersection of the home, school and

community, children can be powerful agents of behavioral change. During Global Handwashing Day

– and the surrounding week – playgrounds, classrooms, community centers and the public spaces of

towns and cities is awashed with educational and awareness raising activity as countries unite to

change handwashing behavior on a scale never seen before. The Public-Private Partnership for

Handwashing with Soap (PPPHW) is a coalition of international handwashing stakeholders.

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Established in 2001, the partnership includes the Water and Sanitation Program, UNICEF, USAID,

the World Bank, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the London School of Hygiene &

Tropical Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Colgate-Palmolive, Procter &

Gamble, Unilever, the USAID/Hygiene Improvement Project, and the Water Supply and Sanitation

Collaborative Council.

The goals of the PPPHW are to: Reduce the incidence of diarrhea and pneumonia in poor

communities through public-private partnerships promoting handwashing with soap. Support its

partners’ large-scale, national Handwashing interventions and promote replication of successful

approaches. Share scientific evidence showing handwashing with soap to be an exceptionally

efficacious and cost-effective health intervention.

Education officials and teachers are particularly important targets, as this first Global Handwashing

Day focuses on schools. Creating ready-made handwashing materials and activities that teachers

can do with their students is a good approach. School children are important agents of change;

activities on Global Handwashing Day should be ones that children can also do at home. An efficient

way to reach out to this audience is by managing information campaigns in primary and secondary

schools.

The said activity was successfully implemented through the collaborative participation of the Junior

and Senior High School Teachers and students to their respective rooms.

A demonstration on the correct handwashing technique standard of the World Health Organization

was done at the Student Center after the flag ceremony in the presence of the Class President and

selected Vice President and teachers. A simulation activity was done to enhance participation and at

the same time mastery of the procedure as performed by the students through return

demonstration.

To further develop their full potential and confidence, the participants demonstrated the procedure

to the classroom with the assistance of their class advisers through facilitated demonstration.

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Citations and Credit

Executive Summary: Significance of the activity

The Handwashing Handbook: A Guide for Developing a Hygiene Promotion Program to Increase

Handwashing with Soap http://www.globalhandwashing.org/

Healthy Schools, Healthy People toolkit for use in schools: (http://www.itsasnap.org/snap/pdfs/

SNAP%20Toolkit%20FINAL%204.pdf)

III. Accomplishment of Objectives

OBJECTIVES STRATEGIES ACTIVITIES RESULTS

1. To demonstrate Demonstrated the After the flag 100% attendance of
proper handwashing correct handwashing ceremony, the the class president and
technique standard by technique to the students specifically selected vice president
the WHO students the class presidents
and selected vice
presidents were
gathered at the
student center for the
demonstration of
handwashing
2. To develop students After the Facilitated Return Satisfactory
self confidence in demonstration, a demonstration performance of the
demonstrating the simulation activity was simulation activity return demonstration
procedure done. The students with 98% proficiency
had return
demonstration on
handwashing
3. To develop mastery Demonstration of Demonstration of the Satisfactory
of the procedure students to their students who had performance of the
respective classroom. return demonstration students to their
to their respective respective classroom
classroom with 99% proficiency
To promote mastery of
the procedure, the
students were not
hesitant to perform
the procedure since it

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 is demonstrated by a
classmate.
4. To promote proper Explained the Brief health education Proper dissemination
hygienic practices importance of was instilled during of information is an
handwashing and how the demonstration on- going process that
microorganisms are each of them must
transmitted from one comply.
person to another
through a dirty hand

V. Major Problems Encountered

The simultaneous handwashing time was not met. The activity was done during their spare

time. The return demonstration was not done at the designated handwashing area since the facility

cannot accommodate large size participants.

VI. Other Insights/Recommendations

1. To maintain proper hygiene and cleanliness and to minimize the transfer of

infection, additional handwashing facility must be put up for students use.

2. Hold a handwashing learning event: A half- to one-day seminar on handwashing,

with case studies, videos, discussion and a field visit highlighting some of the best

and worst examples of action/inaction, best practices, etc.,

3. Hold a Global Handwashing Day coordination group: Revitalization of an existing

group or forming a new coordination group responsible for Global Handwashing

Day activities. This might include a group of representatives from different

stakeholder groups (government, NGO, industry, community) who might gather to

plan activities for Global Handwashing Day.

VII. Annexes

Photo Documentation

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Prepared by:

BERNALYN O. PASCUAL
Clinic Teacher

Noted by:

MARVIN T. MELO MT-II

SHS – Coordinator

Approved by:

FLORA M. PICA, DM
TNHS School Principal

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Annex a

PHOTO DOCUMENTATION

PRE- ACTIVITY

Objective: To promote proper hygienic practices

Strategy: Explained the importance of handwashing and how microorganisms are transmitted
from one person to another through a dirty hand

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DURING THE ACTIVITY

Objective: To demonstrate proper handwashing technique standard by the WHO

Strategy: Demonstrated the correct handwashing technique to the students

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Objective: To develop students self confidence in demonstrating the procedure

Strategy: After the demonstration, a simulation activity was done. The students had return
demonstration on handwashing

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POST ACTIVITY

Objective: To develop mastery of the procedure

Strategy: Demonstration of students to their respective classroom with their classmates return
demonstration.

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