“I have understood how important and necessary food hygiene is. Until now I had not paid much attention to washing my hands with clean water and soap before preparing raw food; and I had not understood the importance of cleaning kitchen utensils properly. From now on I will be more careful”. Vyizigiro Espérance , a woman from the Nombe hill in Burundi, is satisfied.
The topic of food hygiene aroused his interest.
Espérance was part of a group of ten people involved in a training session on good practices to adopt to prevent infectious diseases that can be transmitted by the use of non-potable water when cooking, drinking or washing hands. The same training was attended by Nkunzimana Ferdinand, an inhabitant of Rubaragaza Hill: “I understood that there are many things that we do not know, these meetings are very useful.” For everyone it was a precious opportunity, and everyone followed with great interest. Raising awareness of the correct use of drinking water is one of the aspects of the AMU project Water source of life and development in Ruyigi. The ten protagonists of this training meeting came from the hills of Rubaragaza, Nyarunazi, Nombe and Kigamba, places affected by the construction and adaptation of the drinking water infrastructure foreseen by the project. Now Ferdinand, Espérance and all the others also have another fundamental task: to transmit this new knowledge to their communities . Each of them will in turn be a trainer, so as to generate a chain of diffusion of the acquired information.
