Health and Hygiene

As a sometimes neglected necessity in life, we feel it vitally important for every child to learn everything they can about proper health and hygiene practices. Simple but crucial practices like brushing, flossing, hand washing, to disease prevention, as well the basics of healthy eating and the benefits of organic living.

Pharmaceutical drugs and band-aid cures have only made our immune systems weaker. Just like the old saying goes; “the prevention is better than the cure”. It is more important to educate the youth from an early age about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle than resort to complex and often dangerous drugs and medical procedures to provide a cure.

Although much of the responsibility traditionally falls on the parents, we feel that children can also benefit from our concept by having it integrated into their schooling at a young age. Our plan is to create a fun and interactive program, where children can learn about the inner workings of the human body and of complex natural systems through a series of visually and academically appealing computerized lessons and exciting hands-on learning.

Helpful Links

• Hand hygiene at school - Handwashing & Hand Rubs

  This is a simple look into why it so important for children to practice good hygiene in school, specifically hand washing, as it is vital to removing bacteria and viruses and preventing the spread of illnesses.

• Children (five to 12 years)

  As children get older, they have an increasing amount of freedom over food choice and often eat outside the home.

• Schools and nutrition

  This is Health Canada’s own school health agenda, and reinforces the notion that in school, food and nutrition are extremely important to a child’s ability to learn effectively.

• Happiness, how our environment affects

  This article is entitled “HAPPINESS, HOW OUR ENVIRONMENT AFFECTS OUR WELL BEING AND PERFORMANCE”. It shows how a person’s environment can greatly affect their happiness, which in turn has an impact on their classroom abilities.

• Water, environment and sanitation

  This is a UNICEF article talking about water, sanitation and hygiene in schools, particularly in the 3rd world, where adequate facilities in schools are severely lacking.