A partnership between Lifebuoy and Sightsavers, with the support of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, is encouraging children in Kenya to wash their hands and face regularly to help reduce their exposure to the bacteria responsible for causing trachoma.
Using a specially adapted version of Lifebuoy’s School of 5 programme, which teaches children good handwashing habits, the first phase of the programme was successfully launched in 2014, in Turkana County in Kenya, an area which has the highest incidence of trachoma in the country.
It is now being scaled up to reach over 200 schools in Turkana in 2015 and will also start in Ethiopia this year, expanding into four regions in the country during 2016 as a part of the Federal Ministry of Health’s plan to eliminate trachoma.
This collaboration is part of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust Trachoma Initiative, which sees the trust partnering with the International Coalition for Trachoma Control (ICTC) to co-ordinate efforts to eliminate blinding trachoma in countries within the Commonwealth.
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