Namibia: Omaheke Area Celebrated its success in implementing the Well being Selling Faculty Initiative

Omaheke Area is understood for its agricultural potential particularly in cattle raring, however its more and more turning into common for its milestone achievement within the Well being Selling Faculty Initiative being the one area that has embraced this initiative in all its 47 colleges.

In our quest for the achievement of Imaginative and prescient 2030, well being and schooling are elementary stated the Governor of Omaheke Area, Honorable Pio Nganate.  He made this assertion throughout a particular award ceremony the place each the Ministry of Schooling, Arts and Tradition and Ministry of Well being and Social Companies acknowledged the efforts and exhausting work of college who met the standards of a well being selling faculty. 

The colleges have been awarded in 4 classes of bronze, silver, gold, and platinum and 9 of the 47 colleges have been awarded a bronze plate, 10 silver, 10 gold and 18 platinum. 

Hon Nganate stated that the colleges create a novel alternative to enhance each the schooling and well being standing of learners and that the varsity well being programme supplies a novel alternative for Namibian youngsters to develop and develop in an optimum studying surroundings.

He stated that the success of the Omaheke Well being Selling Faculty Initiative is basically owed to its multi-sectoral method beneath the management of the MOHSS and MEAC in partnership with the HIV Part of Workplace of the Area Council. ‘Management in any respect ranges (nationwide, regional, group, faculty) is important. In a Well being Selling Faculty, steady involvement of the principal, superintendent, faculty board, lecturers, learners, and oldsters drive the creation of a wholesome faculty surroundings’, stated Hon. Nganate.

Dr Sirak Hailu, WHO Public Well being Officer, talking on behalf of the Officer-in-Cost, stated that ‘WHO has lengthy acknowledged the hyperlink between well being and schooling and the potential for colleges to play a central function in safeguarding pupil well being and well-being. In 1995, WHO launched the International Faculty Well being Initiative, which aimed to strengthen approaches to well being promotion in colleges. Amongst these approaches, pairing youngsters with well being providers occupies an necessary place’.

The well being of younger folks, and the adults they may turn out to be, is critically linked to the health-related behaviors they select to undertake and faculty well being is a useful avenue to positively affect youngsters and adolescents’ Dr Sirak acknowledged.

The varsity well being programme was launched in 1998 in Namibia and has since been applied in all 14 areas of the nation.  A memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Well being and Social and Ministry of Schooling, Arts and Tradition is in place supported by multi-sectoral coordination mechanism at each nationwide and regional degree.  Though most colleges have totally different well being schooling programmes in colleges, most colleges are but to adapt the well being selling faculty initiative. WHO stays dedicated to supporting the federal government of Namibia in realizing the well being and wellbeing of youngsters and adolescents in colleges and can proceed to work with its companions in the direction of this goal. 

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of World Well being Group (WHO) – Namibia.