Tippy Tap Pt.2

The Tippy Tap Health Education Project

After building our first tippy tap as a pilot study to assess the best way to educate the residents in the slums in response to reducing deadly diarrheal diseases, our team realized that we needed to go beyond just building the tippy taps to educating these individuals and families on the basic healthy hygiene practices.

For the remainder of our time here, we will be partnering with SAPED, a local NGO, in conducting health education classes for the residents within the slums. Some of the educational material includes, germs, germ transmission, proper hand washing techniques, how to build and maintain a tippy tap and diarrheal as well as other infectious easily transmitted diseases.

During the process of holding these education classes we will be training local health leaders to hold theses health education classes to the point that they are able to confidently carry the remaining classes out while we are there supporting and evaluating the progress and needs of our project.

By the end of this project our goal is to have SAPED to be able to sustain and continue to train health educators on this project and who will then have the skills necessary to educate other rural areas throughout India in building Tippy Taps and holding the health education classes.

Diarrheal and other infectious diseases are completely preventable by simply washing hands with soap and water. Let’s make a difference one tippy tap at a time through Public Health work.

-JS and MC