Maintaining personal and environmental hygiene is just as necessary as food and water to maintain good health. Proper hygiene can save their lives and protect them from deadly diseases.

Therefore, Yemen Family Care Association (YFCA) conducted 100 awareness sessions in hygiene promotion in nine areas of five districts - Shabwah governorate through 50 community hygiene volunteers (25 Females and 25 Males) in Aug/2022.

The key hygiene promotion messages were explained in sessions as follows:
• Cholera and watery diarrhea
• Transmission and prevention of infectious diseases
• Proper ways to store and purify water
• Waste safe disposal
•Hand washing and personal hygiene 

The number of the sessions' attendees within Aug/2022 reached 1247 individuals including women, men, boys and girls. Also, the sessions targeted IDPs, Marginalized, returnees and host communities. 

This activity is considered one of the activities for the project of WASH and humanitarian food assistance for IDPs, host communities, returnees, and marginalized groups in six districts of Shabwah Governorate-Yemen, which is funded by the German Federal Foreign Ministry (AA) in partnership with Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH).

This activity aims to raise awareness in the target community of water and health-related attitudes that reduce the incidence of diseases in health centers and change the community behaviors as well as the population in targeted communities that have sustained access to safe drinking water.