aHE Initiative: We care about you and your environment

What we do

Water and environmental sanitation, community and rural development, the health and safety of women and children, and charitable service.

A long row of students washing their hands at orange bucket handwashing stations on a school field.
Sensitization on handwashing in schools, Ikotun Local Government, Lagos, 13 February 2012.

Water, sanitation and hygiene

WASH and Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

  • WASH in rural communities
  • WASH in schools
  • Water quality testing
  • WASH in emergencies
  • Hygiene promotion in communities and rural markets
  • Hygiene promotion in and through schools
  • Water safety plans
  • Rural drinking water quality and surveillance
  • Menstrual hygiene
  • Community-Led Total Sanitation implementation
  • WASH in humanitarian emergencies

Health

  • A healthy environment for the less privileged, including orphanage homes
  • Health care services for rural communities
  • Formation of health clubs in schools
  • Health programme implementation and management, such as Roll Back Malaria (RBM), the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) HIV campaign, neglected tropical diseases and the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)
  • Third-party monitoring and evaluation of primary health care packages in preventive and curative activities
  • Female genital mutilation
  • Child rights and human rights
  • Health in humanitarian emergencies
  • Health sensitization: neglected tropical diseases, malaria and HIV campaigns

Environment and climate

Climate change and environmental health

  • Sensitization on climate change
  • Sensitization on waste disposal
  • Environmental sanitation in communities
  • Contributing to environmental sustainability
  • A healthy, safe environment at home, in the workplace and in the community
  • Awareness campaigns and training on environment, health and safety

Areas we are developing: climate-change adaptation, waste management, and community preparedness for climate-related health risks.

Education

  • Provision of writing materials
  • Provision of basic educational kits for schoolchildren

Consultancy and counselling

  • Consultancy and training in health, safety and environment
  • Rural and urban water supply consultancy
  • Proposal writing
  • Budgeting
  • Technical assistance
  • Quarterly and mid-year workplans to achieve goals and targets
  • Fundraising

Our track record

Work we carried out between 2012 and 2016, from our organisation profile. More recent work will be added here.

DateWorkPlace
30 January 2012 Renovation of a block of classrooms Egan Senior Grammar School, Igando, Lagos
13 February 2012 Sensitization on handwashing in schools Ikotun Local Government, Lagos
21 March 2013 Global Handwashing Day FOA Grammar School
14 May 2013 One-day sensitization training on Community-Led Total Sanitation Ministry of Rural Development, Water and Sanitation, Alausa, Lagos State
20 October 2013 Facilitator at Community-Led Total Sanitation Royal Park Hotel, Iloko Ijesha, Ayedade Local Government, Osun State
27 October 2013 Facilitator at Community-Led Total Sanitation MicCom Golf, Ada, Odo-Otin Local Government
2 February 2014 Visit to a motherless home Ogbomoso, Oyo State
21 March 2014 Global Handwashing Day celebration Freedom Park, Oke-Fia, Osogbo, Osun State
July 2014 and November 2015 Monitoring and evaluation in LGAs where interventions against neglected tropical diseases are running 12 LGAs in Osun State
9 August 2014 to February 2016 Hygiene promotion in 64 AfDB-assisted primary schools State of Osun
From 18 August 2014 Water and sanitation, training and follow-up on hygiene promotion in schools, with RUWESA Schools in the State of Osun
2 June 2015 Sponsored a corps member to carry out a community development project on health, sanitation and handwashing Warrake Community, Owan East LGA, Edo State
22 October 2015 Facilitated Global Handwashing Day Freedom Park, Osogbo
From 21 February 2016 Workshop training and field work on the Community-Led Total Sanitation programme 24 selected communities in Irewole and Isokan Local Government Areas, State of Osun

In the field

Pupils seated at desks outdoors on a school field during a handwashing talk.
Sensitization on handwashing in schools, Ikotun Local Government, Lagos
A large group of training participants gathered outside a building.
Training on hygiene promotion in schools and provision of handwashing facilities
A facilitator speaking to a seated audience in a hall.
Facilitating teachers, SBMC, PTA and WES on menstrual hygiene and girl-child rights

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