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Germ
Tag - Education
campaign game.
Instructions
In
the game there are 4 germs, 5 normal people, and 1 doctor.
The 5 normal people wear the giant hands and have to run
away from the germs. The germs have to pick up the plastic
germs and try to stick them on the normal people's giant
hands. The Doctors have to try and get the germs off the
infected normal people's giant hands.
Designed
by the Reading Group.
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Instructions
There
are 5 big leaves, and they catch the rain and send it
down a bamboo pipe into a tank. There are three tanks,
the first tank catches the water from the bamboo pipe
and sends it into the 3rd tank, which has a ball cock
in it so when the water drops, the first tank sends water
down a plastic pipe into the. If both tanks are full then
you remove the pipe and put it in the 2nd which is a spare
tank.
Next
to the 3rd tank is a bamboo hut called the Sanitizing
Wash-mi-call-it. Inside the hut is a foot pump and a soft
elbow pad. When you push the foot pump down with your
foot it pulls a small leaver which lets out a few drops
of the soap (from the soap recipe below) onto your hand.
Then you rub your hands together and sing the song we
composed to the tune of Frere Jacques. Then you elbow
the soft pad which pulls another leaver and releases a
small amount of water from the 3rd tank to wash off the
soap.
HOW
TO MAKE YOUR OWN SOAP
Ingredients:
Palm
oil
Wood ash
Cold water
Boil
the water over heat to kill bugs or dirt. Let the water
sit once boiled, in the shade to cool. Pour the water
into a non metal pot. Slowly add the wood ash, a little
bit at a time, with a fragranced stick, to deterrent for
mosquitoes, lice, fleas, and ticks. Don't breathe the
vapor. In a separate pot melt the palm oil then pour into
a plastic pot. Add the wood ash paste and mix thoroughly
until it looks like a thick pudding. Let it sit until
hard ( could be up to a week ) then cut into bars. Make
chips from your home made soap cake and add boiled water
and mix. Hint: when a potato or egg floats in the wood
ash it is thick enough.
Song
of Soap
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Tok
Pigeon version
Wasim
han
Wasim
han
Em
bai kilim jerm
Em bai kilim jerm
Bai
yu nais na helti
Bai yu nais na helti
Na
gulpla moa
Na gupla moa
Yusim
lek pam
Yusim lek pam
Na
bai yu kisim sop
Na bai yu kisim sop
Wantaim
sampla wara
Wantaim sampla wara
Bai
yu nais klin
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English
version
Wash
your hands
Wash your hands
It'll
kill the germs
It'll kill the germs
You'll
be nice and healthy
You'll be nice and healthy
And
much better off
And much better off
Use
the foot pumps
Use the foot pumps
Out
will come some soap
Out will come some soap
Then
a little water
Then a little water
And
you'll be nice and clean
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Click
this graphic for a PowerPoint presentation of the health
education book.
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John
la Roche, engineer comments...
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Effectiveness
This design has some really innovative ideas. Firstly
the need for sufficient area to catch rain and funnel
it into a tank for storage is really important. Using
five big leaves to catch the water and funnel it into
the collecting tank is a great idea. Leaves usually have
ribs, which would help to funnel the water to the bamboo
collecting tube. Although the leaves might wither and
dry, possibly there could be fresh leaves picked as replacements
if there is a suitable tree nearby.
And the storage tanks are also a good idea to take advantage
of a good downpour and store the water ready for use until
it is needed. Having a ball cock on the third tank to
fill it when it drains down is also an excellent idea
to provide water needed for hand washing.
Also to be commended are the innovations for the washroom
to provide a few drops of soap from a foot-operated dispenser,
and then a small quantity of water by an elbow-operated
lever prevents dirty hands from contaminating a tap or
other water release device.
To
do all this in the special "Sanitizing Wash-mi-call-it
Room" while singing the Song of Soap is a really
good idea, ensuring that the hands are well cleaned with
soap before washing and the children will remember why
they need to wash their hands.
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Durability
While the leaves could need regular replacement, if a
suitable tree is growing nearby this could be very easily
done by the school children. Having three storage tanks
will provide water for hand washing when conditions are
dry and there has been no rain. Using bamboo as pipe is
utilising a cheap readily available local material, which
should last reasonably well, but could be easily replaced
when necessary.
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User-friendliness
The whole arrangement is very user-friendly, with the
special sanitizing hand-wash room and the facility for
getting soap and water without contaminating the equipment
with dirty hands. The Limehills students have understood
the important health benefits of hand washing and carefully
considered how to prevent germs from dirty hands being
transferred to others using the hand washing facility.
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Cost
While the cost of this facility will be greater than other
designs utilising recycled plastic bottles, it has much
greater capacity to store water for times when there is
no rain, and tanks made from second-hand plastic drums
or similar locally available material should not be too
expensive. The lever operated soap dispenser and elbow
operated water dispenser would need careful design and
manufacture, adding to the cost, but if a large number
of schools were to employ this design the cost would be
minimised.
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Communication
The Limehills students must be highly commended for their
game using germs, people and a doctor. Children will have
fun playing this game and learn about the importance of
germs. And the "Song of Soap" which children
sing when washing their hands will make sure everyone
remembers why they need to wash their hands. By singing
it they will take time to wash their hands thoroughly
and everyone will learn.
I
must highly commend Limehills Students for a very well
thought-out and innovative design solution to this difficult
health problem.
Dr
Norris comments...Cool idea. People will remember
your ideas and it would be fun however it might be better
to have a nurse rather a doctor. Perhaps the students
in PNG have not met many doctors. Perhaps an even better
idea would be to have huge, human giant drops of water
keeping the germs off. That would be really fun!
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