Effectiveness of a Sanitation Training Program through Developing Hygiene and Health Education Materials, Targeting Waste Pickers in Khulna City, Bangladesh

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Visual hygienic educational materials on two types of “posters” and a set of “flip cards” targeting waste pickers in Khulna city, Bangladesh was developed. The sanitation training program, lasting six days in total and for 40 waste pickers’ families, was implemented using the developed learning tools and mainly focused on how to help them improve their daily hygiene and health process regarding with valuable waste collection. During the training period, quantitative and qualitative feedback was collected from waste pickers and the effectiveness of the training in terms of developing hygiene educational materials was reported. This meant it was better able to enhance their learning effectiveness using visual educational materials of waste pickers actually having worked in Khulna city, which were very familiar to their daily lives and by introducing participatory and interactive approaches in presentations, discussions and demonstrations, collectively building a platform to communicate positively with them.