Wife of the governor of Anambra State,Mrs Nonye Soludo,has highlighted the importance of closer monitoring of hostel activities in schools, including hygiene habits of students in hostel environments.
The governor’s wife stated this at Girls’ Secondary School, Amenyi, Awka, during the kick-off of her visits to major boarding schools in the state.
The visit, among other things, is to ascertain the living conditions of the students and to donate household materials that will aid their hygiene practice and protect them from diseases.
Among the items donated to the hostel were sanitary pads, antiseptic soaps, disinfectants, and insecticide treated nets.
Mrs Soludo says she plans to visit over 28 boarding schools across the three senatorial zones of the state.
She talked about the importance of always keeping the hostels clean and asked schools to increase monitoring of hostel activities, especially students’ lives and health.
Mrs Soludo also noted that having successfully set up Healthy Living Pad Banks in over 350 secondary schools in the state, the plan is to continue to engage with schools to see possible ways of bringing healthy living closer to pupils and students.
She further stated, that hygiene is a primary pillar of the healthy living crusade given how common diseases can originate from there, emphasizing that with the planned launching of healthy living clubs in primary schools in the state, issue of hygiene would be taken more serious.
Commending the governor’s wife for the gesture, the Principal of Girls’ Secondary School, Awka, Dr Ndidi Okeke, explained that the benefits of Mrs Soludo’s Healthy Living movement is currently being felt around the state, noting that by taking it to schools, the campaign has been strongly fixed to outlive tenures.
