Health & Well-being · Supported by Polish Aid
Promoting health and well-being in schools and communities
With support from Polish Aid, Casa Vida brought practical health information to students and families in Manatuto and Liquiçá — from hygiene and nutrition to family planning and looking after your own well-being.
Good health starts with good information. In recent weeks, Casa Vida expanded its outreach beyond the shelter to share that information where young people and families learn and gather. Our nurses, midwife and psychologist visited schools, and our nurses and midwife held outreach in communities, to talk about everyday health in plain language, answer questions, and leave people with ideas they can use at home.
The work focuses on awareness that protects well-being. When students and parents understand how to look after hygiene, nutrition, reproductive health and their own stress, they are better able to make informed choices and seek help early.
In schools in Manatuto
At Escola Secundária Agrícola e Musical (ESAM) Cribas, Escola Básica Central (EBC) Kay Rala and Escola Secundária Católica (ESC) São Bento Salau, the team met students in their classrooms. Sessions covered personal hygiene, family planning, nutrition and psychosocial well-being. The conversations were interactive, with time for students to ask about situations they face at school and at home.
Our psychologist also led a session on personality and stress. Students learned how stress shows up in the body and in daily life, and practised simple ways to pause, breathe, talk to someone they trust, and manage pressure during exams and challenges with friends or family.
In communities in Liquiçá
On 16 and 17 July, the team held community outreach in Liquiçá with 115 participants across Suku Lauhata, Maubara Lissa and Mota-ulun. Nurses and a midwife led discussions on hygiene, family planning, nutrition and psychosocial well-being, and offered basic health checks and information that families could take home.
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