| The school environment is an excellent place to begin addressing issues such as hygiene and nutrition. Through hand washing initiatives and school feeding programmes it is possible to have an impact on some of the factors like infectious diseases and malnutrition which keep children away from school. |
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| The Sabre Trust is supporting projects to improve school sanitation facilities and provide the kitchen and dining amenities which are a precondition for access to the government-run school feeding programme. These investments in health-related infrastructure are accompanied by education campaigns to maximise their impact. |
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| Engagement with parents through the Parent-Teacher Association means that these facilities and behaviours can be used as demonstration projects to encourage families to invest in their own low-cost versions at home. By influencing the behaviours of school children, it is possible to cause positive change amongst their wider families. |
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| The Sabre Trust is also implementing school farm and community medicinal garden projects – the school farms provide fruit and vegetables to supplement the school feeding programme, and the medicinal gardens offer community members free access to homeopathic remedies. The medicinal gardens projects build on work already achieved by the Aburi Botanic Gardens programme. |
