“Before, we didn’t aware that the simple hand-washing is important. Now, we keep this hygiene behavior for a healthier life.”
—Ibu Karmini, Bintaro Lama

WatSan Action’s Public Health Promotion (PHP) Program works to increase awareness and action towards improving personal and environmental health & hygiene behaviors. PHP lays the educational foundation for the other WatSan Action programs. Educating community members about clean water, improved sanitation, and solid waste management is important to the sustainability of these programs.

Our team took the core messages from each program and developed an interactive lesson series. Related activities are also part of promoting these messages about the relation of hygiene habits to healthier lifestyles, for example. The messages are the same, though our activities and lessons are appropriately different for adults and kids.

For kids, we teach eleven messages in a structure of a “Kelas Bersih Sehat” field class, in addition to other related activities. With adults, we integrate these messages into a Kadres training class and also foster message-related activities, to stimulate further awareness and learning that will lead to healthier lives.