Proyecto Educativo para Promover Prácticas de Higiene, Dirigido a Niños/as de la Escuela José de San Martín Comunidad Uchanchi. Parroquia San Andrés. Cantón Guano. Provincia de Chimborazo. Abril - Septiembre 2010

Abstract

The present work was carried out in the Uchanchi Community. Canton Guano. San Andres Parish. Province of Chimborazo. There was a universe of 27 students from 4th to 7th Year of Basic Education at the José de San Martín School. Based on the descriptive study Transversal, a survey was conducted to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices on personal hygiene, food and housing, based on the results obtained. 93% of the children have a regular knowledge and the 7% good knowledge about this subject; we proceeded to design and execute an educational project with the Active Participative method, such as: brainstorming, group work, expositions, practices, in subjects such as: hand washing, dental brushing, food handling, housing hygiene among other topics more, where results were obtained after the different interventions, an increase of 89% in good knowledge, and 11% of regular knowledge, thus fulfilling the proposed goal of increasing knowledge levels in the study population. To allow to acquire new sanitary habits, it is the duty of each child to put it into practice since living in the rural sector is not to make it a myth "that is the place where diseases are born", on the contrary through these trainings the children will put into practice what they have learned, to avoid getting sick and enjoying the health of their family.