PHI includes public health
education in each of its project village schools. Our experience has shown that one of the best ways to
encourage parents to become involved in public health education is through the
involvement of their children.
PHI provides intensive
public health training to all indigenous staff, who then provide free basic
pubic health classes in all project village primary schools.
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With schoolbooks, PHI teaches basic public health
in all project schools. Here a
young girl practices basic hand washing techniques in Pueblo Nuevo, Ecuador,
2002.
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PHI believes that
exercise is an essential part of any public health program. PHI, therefore, provides the materials
for the construction of playground equipment, balls for soccer, jumping ropes
and related playground items to all of its project village schools.
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PHI provides
playground equipment at project schools to insure the proper development of the body along with the mind.
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As an extension of its public health educational
program, PHI provides schoolbooks in all required subjects for grades 1-6 in
all of its project villages.