WASH Community Training
This course has been approved for 37.75 contact hours from the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Improvements to water quality and supply are proven to be far more effective and sustainable when hygiene and sanitation behavior are also addressed. Diarrheal diseases are drastically reduced, in turn reducing the need for costly curative medicine and freeing up medical clinics for more serious illnesses.
At Equip we see a need to offer churches a short-term program with long-lasting effects that can be easily carried out with church members to address the problems created by unsafe water supply and sanitation. WASH Community Training is a participatory training of trainers course combining practical WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) science, community development principles and Biblical truths that equip both short-term and long-term missionaries with the practical knowledge and skills to address these problems.
Course Outputs:
- Biblically based community development principles
- Implementation concepts for a successful water development ministry
- Knowledge and skills to teach cross-culture community members about hygiene principles
- Techniques and strategies to train others about hygiene
- A clearly understandable program easily implemented in home churches and overseas
- An alternative and affordable strategy to curative medical clinics
Through interactive hands-on learning and classroom instruction, participants will be equipped in this one-week course with knowledge and skills that better prepare them to minister wholistically.
There is no "one" solution to these problems as they are as diverse and varied as the people, cultures, geology and locations in which missionaries serve. Our Water Technologies Courses combined with WASH principles offer a comprehensive program that takes a serious look at these issues to equip the missionary with varied tools and strategies.
