Tifu Yose is six years old and had never brushed his teeth until this month! He had never been told to brush his teeth and did not know why anyone would bother! Florence, our health educator in Jinja District, has spent the last several weeks training hundreds of young children in personal hygiene. Slowly they began to see that they are worth caring for and that they can do this easily. Better yet, they take the message home and that is what Tifu did. His father, Kungu, told Florence how he has begun to teach the whole family and they are now all brushing their teeth with chewed sticks from the "toothbrush bush"!!!
Little Health Workers 18th October 2013
Tifu Yose is six years old and had never brushed his teeth until this month! He had never been told to brush his teeth and did not know why anyone would bother! Florence, our health educator in Jinja District, has spent the last several weeks training hundreds of young children in personal hygiene. Slowly they began to see that they are worth caring for and that they can do this easily. Better yet, they take the message home and that is what Tifu did. His father, Kungu, told Florence how he has begun to teach the whole family and they are now all brushing their teeth with chewed sticks from the "toothbrush bush"!!!
