Afrigather Omaheke Area is thought for its agricultural potential particularly in cattle raring, however its more and more turning into in style for its milestone achievement within the Well being Selling College Initiative being the one area that has embraced this initiative in all its 47 faculties.
In our quest for the achievement of Imaginative and prescient 2030, well being and training are basic mentioned 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 faculty who met the factors of a well being selling college.
The colleges have been awarded in 4 classes of bronze, silver, gold, and platinum and 9 of the 47 faculties have been awarded a bronze plate, 10 silver, 10 gold and 18 platinum.
Hon Nganate mentioned that the faculties create a novel alternative to enhance each the training and well being standing of learners and that the college well being programme gives a novel alternative for Namibian youngsters to develop and develop in an optimum studying surroundings.
He mentioned that the success of the Omaheke Well being Selling College Initiative is basically owed to its multi-sectoral strategy 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, college) is vital. In a Well being Selling College, steady involvement of the principal, superintendent, college board, academics, learners, and fogeys drive the creation of a wholesome college surroundings’, mentioned Hon. Nganate.
Dr Sirak Hailu, WHO Public Well being Officer, talking on behalf of the Officer-in-Cost, mentioned that ‘WHO has lengthy acknowledged the hyperlink between well being and training and the potential for faculties to play a central function in safeguarding scholar well being and well-being. In 1995, WHO launched the International College Well being Initiative, which aimed to strengthen approaches to well being promotion in faculties. Amongst these approaches, pairing youngsters with well being companies occupies an necessary place’.
The well being of younger folks, and the adults they may change into, is critically linked to the health-related behaviors they select to undertake and college well being is a useful avenue to positively affect youngsters and adolescents’ Dr Sirak acknowledged.
The college 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 stage. Though most faculties have totally different well being training programmes in faculties, most faculties are but to adapt the well being selling college initiative. WHO stays dedicated to supporting the federal government of Namibia in realizing the well being and wellbeing of youngsters and adolescents in faculties and can proceed to work with its companions in the direction of this goal.
