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<h1>Guatemala & Hygiene Lesson Plan</h1>
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<li>In 2000 the United Nations developed the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in order to alleviate poverty and reduce deprivations in health and education, for example. All of the United Nations member states agreed to achieve these goals by 2015. Target 4 of the MDGs aims to reduce child mortality by two-thirds before the deadline. Diarrhea is the second leading cause of deaths in children under five years of age. In Guatemala, approximately 60% of deaths in children fewer than five years of age are attributed to diarrhea (PAHO, 2007).
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<li>The WHO in partnership with UNICEF issued a report in 2009 (<em>Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done</em>) addressing the importance of prevention and management of diarrheal diseases to improving child survival. The report highlighted that diarrhea is prevalent in developing countries due to a lack of safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, bad hygiene, poor health, and poor nutrition status.
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<li>In addition, the report held that delivering life-saving treatment was important in reducing child deaths but that progress could only be made by focusing on prevention through immunizations and by addressing factors that lead to the diarrheal disease.
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<p>The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) aim to reduce child mortality by two-thirds before 2015. Diarrhea is the second leading cause of deaths in children under five years of age. In Guatemala, approximately 60% of deaths in children fewer than five years of age are attributed to diarrhea (PAHO, 2007). The WHO in partnership with UNICEF issued a report in 2009 (<em>Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done</em>) addressing the importance of prevention and management of diarrheal diseases to improving child survival. The report highlighted that diarrhea is prevalent in developing countries due to a lack of safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, bad hygiene, poor health, and poor nutrition status. In addition, the report held that delivering life-saving treatment was important in reducing child deaths but that progress could only be made by focusing on prevention through immunizations and by addressing factors that lead to the diarrheal disease. Prevention included washing hands with soap and maintaining good hygiene. In addition, emphasis was placed on community involvement-from members of the population to healthcare professional- in health  prevention.  </p>
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<li>Prevention included washing hands with soap and maintaining good hygiene. In addition, emphasis was placed on community involvement, from members of the population to healthcare professionals.
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<p>The ASU iGEM team is working on a biosensor to detect  contaminated water. The team knows that this alone is not enough to stop the  incidence of childhood diarrhea. As a result, the team (partnering with ASU’s  School of Human Evolution and Social Change) created a hygiene lesson plan for  schools in the central rural highlands of Guatemala. The team’s aims were to  teach young children about the importance of having good hygiene and washing  hands. </p>
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<li>The lesson plan targeted at younger kids sought to use glitter to demonstrate how easily people transfer microbes from person to person. By putting glitter on classroom objects, we visibly modeled the spread of microbes in the real world.  
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<p><b>Children’s Charla</b></p>
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    <td><div align="center">Figure 1: Photograph from inside a rural village school  in the Department of Chimaltenango, Guatemala</div></td>
 
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Picture 1994- This picture was taken to see the clinic in its entirety. This clinic is located in the rural area of Honduras. At this clinic we are able to see over 400 patients, during the few days that we run the clinic. Taken by Amanda Ispas.
 
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Picture 2042- This image was is of the Honduran children who are waiting for their charla. It was during these charlas (talks) that we were able to teach them when to wash their hands and how to brush their teeth. Taken by Amanda Ispas.
 
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Latest revision as of 04:00, 27 October 2012


Guatemala & Hygiene Lesson Plan

  • In 2000 the United Nations developed the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in order to alleviate poverty and reduce deprivations in health and education, for example. All of the United Nations member states agreed to achieve these goals by 2015. Target 4 of the MDGs aims to reduce child mortality by two-thirds before the deadline. Diarrhea is the second leading cause of deaths in children under five years of age. In Guatemala, approximately 60% of deaths in children fewer than five years of age are attributed to diarrhea (PAHO, 2007).
  • The WHO in partnership with UNICEF issued a report in 2009 (Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done) addressing the importance of prevention and management of diarrheal diseases to improving child survival. The report highlighted that diarrhea is prevalent in developing countries due to a lack of safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, bad hygiene, poor health, and poor nutrition status.
  • In addition, the report held that delivering life-saving treatment was important in reducing child deaths but that progress could only be made by focusing on prevention through immunizations and by addressing factors that lead to the diarrheal disease.
  • Prevention included washing hands with soap and maintaining good hygiene. In addition, emphasis was placed on community involvement, from members of the population to healthcare professionals.
  • The lesson plan targeted at younger kids sought to use glitter to demonstrate how easily people transfer microbes from person to person. By putting glitter on classroom objects, we visibly modeled the spread of microbes in the real world.

Arizona State hopskotch.PNG

Lesson plan (PDF)

The ASU iGEM team is working on a biosensor to detect contaminated water. The team knows that this alone is not enough to stop the incidence of childhood diarrhea. As a result, the team (partnering with ASU’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change) created a hygiene lesson plan for schools in the central rural highlands of Guatemala. The team’s aims were to teach young children about the importance of having good hygiene and washing hands using glitter as an analogy for microbes.