Florence teaches hundreds of nursery children every day about hygiene and one of the lessons concentrates on what to do when your foot or leg is cut. Ugandan children run around barefoot and so this is a real problem as wounds get infected very easily. It is common practice for mothers to pack wounds with either earth or an antibiotic tablet. This sounds crazy to us but most of these women have never been taught themselves and strange practices abound where there is no education.Florence has shown the children how easily wounds can be washed with salty water. This is a cheap and simple practice which can be adopted by families. Last week, Justine (pictured with her son), one of the teachers in our schools cut her foot at home and remembered hearing Florence's lesson. She made up her salty water and bathed her foot in it and was so happy to tell Florence that her foot had healed quickly and with no pain!
