The purpose of this project is to raise hygiene promotion awareness among Syrian refuges children in urban areas in Erbil
Governorates. The project will also target to increase awareness of the refugees to hygiene problems of the community, its definition,
treatment and prevention, as well as promote positive attitudes to health education and stimulate healthy behavior. The education
and awareness are important components in the hygiene promotion project and the project will help the target population to better
understand the relationship between water, sanitation and hygiene for themselves and their families. However, education alone does
not necessarily lead to improved practices the promotion of behavior change is a gradual process involving working with local
communities more closely, design media awareness and finally take practical steps to encourage positive practices as well as improving
health at the level of the individual and society.

The team will focus on following hygiene messages:

1 – Water conservation – Educate children on how to keep the water and not wasting it and get them to shut the tap water after use

2 – Wash hands after using the sanitation facilities, before and after eating, before and after foods preparation and after playing

3 – Water handling inside the household and that through a set of representational events which will be carried out by targeted to
clarify that.

4- Hygiene awareness for moms with kids

Since there are Hygiene kits distribution planned in the project then the education programme will include use each item in a proper
manner.

Mobilizing Actions toward Better Community Health for Syrian Refugees in Qushtapa Camp – Erbil Province

The key objective of the project is raising awareness of Syrian refugees in Qushtapa camp on safe hygiene practice, including importance on cleaning sanitation system of refugee’s families in the camp periodically. The project will also aim to raise awareness of refugees to the health problems in the community. The objectives will reach by introducing the principals of treatment and prevention, as well as foster positive attitudes in education, health and stimulate healthy behavior. And education and awareness of the important elements in hygiene promotion project; and the project will help the target population to a better understanding of the relationship between water, sanitation and hygiene for themselves and their families. However, educational one does not necessarily lead to improved practices promoting behavior change is a gradual process involves working with local communities including children more closely, design media outreach, and finally take practical steps to encourage positive practices as well as improving health at the level of the individual and society through community participation and dialogue. The project will finally empower community to participate in their own development and to access services and feedback issues to camp management through the community leaders. In partnership with UNICEF, FPA org is implementing a project for four months from the order (Mobilizing Actions toward Better Community Health for Syrian Refugees), for women and children in the Qushtapa camp, The goal of this project it’s to mobilize and
empower Syrian refugees in knowledge and improve behaviors practices major home-related hygiene, health and nutrition, water conservation, by using a mother technique to child, and the child to others as well as to the family in general. and empower sanitation and good health, education through 54 awareness sessions for women and 50 awareness sessions for children convey awareness, the total of the Beneficiaries from this project is (4590) from the individuals’ dwell Qushtapa camp.

1-Health & Nutrition:
Family planning and awareness organization continued the campaigns of awareness, Health, Hygiene & Education for Families, children in school & Child out of school, also FPA did Polio vaccination campaign for children of (0-5) years old the camp tents to encourage the mothers to vaccinate their children against polio. Also the doctor explained to pregnant women the importance of taking care of their health & Fetus’s health through the healthy nutrition and periodically visit the health center in the camp to check the fetus’s health status and take all the necessary vaccinations during pregnancy period, the doctor emphasized also on the necessity of breast feeding and not to depend on artificial feeding (powder milk), as breast feeding will protect the children from all diseases and strengthen their bodies which make them healthy & strong in the future and it protects the mother from breast cancer.

2- Given health awareness and education for women
The activities of the Family Planning and awareness Organization focused on educating mothers through awareness sessions health for every 20 women, in addition to visits from tent to tent, which focused on, Delivering health awareness messages about how to protect family members from the risks of contamination and exposure to infectious diseases because they are in a camp in detail, as well as visits by a team from tent to tent. Most of the pregnant women and urged them to give their children breast feeding, which strengthens the bodies of their children to gain resistance, as well as to protect the mother from being exposed to breast cancer, because breast feeding protects mothers from Breast cancer. In addition, health awareness messages were sent to all camp women with continuous follow-up on their health.

3-Education:
FPA org started Washing Hands Campaign in Qushtapa Camp School , the aim of this campaign was, Educating school children about health practices through health awareness lectures.

To make the children participate in promoting the practice of washing the hands with soap, which also arise the families’ awareness of preventing diseases through clean hands? The main message for the children was through answering the following questions: –

* Why it is necessary to wash the hands with soap? It was explained to the children about the risks that they may face in case they didn’t wash their hands in certain times, such as diseases like Diarrheal, acute respiratory infections, eye infections and skin diseases. So, the children understood that washing the hands is an effective and inexpensive activity to prevent these diseases.

*When we need to wash our hands with soap? The children were taught to wash their hands in certain times like after using WC &before eating. Also advised to inform their mothers to do so specially after changing the babies’ diapers, before breast feeding, and before cooking

*How to wash the hands with soap and water? Through true life scenario the children were taught how to wash their hands in the right way

*Who else should also wash their hands? It was explained to the children that this practice is not only for them but it is also for their parents & other family members as this practice is useful, so they should convoy this knowledge to their family.

4-Vaccination campaign against polio

During the years we worked in Qushtapa camp, all awareness campaigns for the prevention of polio were implemented by the Family Planning and awareness Organization, including placing polio awareness posters on service centers in the camp, as well as cooperation and escort to the health team that was working to give a dose of polio vaccine in a camp where It was a monthly survey for the Family planning and awareness organization Team to know the children being born as well as the children over the fifth year, so that in each campaign all the children took the dose against polio and this made the children of the camp far from infection.

5- Cholera awareness campaigns in Qushtapa camp

The family planning and awareness organization team, led by a doctor, educating mothers and children about the prevention of cholera and putting up posters for prevention that were distributed to us by the Ministry of Health in Erbil, because the family planning and awareness organization had continuous coordination in all awareness campaigns and activities with the Ministry of Health.

After all Mobilizer has been trained about cholera and the prevention of cholera and how the treatment of cholera, the campaign has been working according to the below points.

1- Mobilizers began a campaign to raise awareness of cholera from tent to tent.
2- The distribution of a booklet to raise awareness of cholera and a detailed explanations of the contents of the awareness booklet.
3- Explanation of cholera to the families was a detailed through the basic information that has been clarified through the doctor which.

Name of the project: Maternity Education (Family Planning, Pre-Natal, and Infant Care Train-the-Trainer) For Rural Women in the Kurdistan Region. Areas
target: Villages and complexes in the Kurdistan Region
Period of grant: June/20/2008 – Feb/20/2009
Beneficiary: 4628 persons
FUND: Office of Provincial Affairs (U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq).
Objectives: Awareness the mother and father to reduce childbearing to serve the community and the family and to protect the health of the mother and child