Six teachers display laminated prevention posters during the school electrification program.

This new Photo of the Day shows the teachers of SDN Bidiwai, photographed last week during the distribution of 103 SolarBuddy lamps.

In their hands, you see six of the nine health education posters we provide to every school we support. Soon, there will be ten, with the addition of our HIV campaign focused on awareness and encouraging testing.

When we travel to a school to distribute SolarBuddy lamps as part of our school electrification programme, we do not only bring light. We bring prevention. Before leaving, we met with the students and reviewed each poster together, slowly and in simple terms. We discuss healthy and unhealthy foods. We explain why handwashing matters and when it matters. We speak about tobacco and passive smoking, alcohol abuse, physical activity, basic hygiene, and infections that still harm families here. We ask the children questions and let them correct each other. Then we answer what they do not yet know.

This is not a lecture. It is community medicine in its simplest form: clear messages, repeated, visible every day on a classroom wall.

The impact goes far beyond the school. Children are powerful messengers. They go home and talk. They show their parents the drawings. They repeat the sentences to younger siblings. They challenge habits without shame, because they are proud of what they learned. In villages where access to healthcare is delayed and information is scarce, this low-cost education can prevent infections, reduce risk behaviours, and encourage families to seek earlier care.

Teachers are the key. A trained teacher becomes a daily health reference for dozens of children, year after year. The posters make that possible even when we are gone. They are printed on laminated, UV- and weather-resistant glossy paper so they can survive heat, humidity, and time. They stay visible. They stay useful. They keep working.

This photo shows six proud teachers holding these tools. It represents something essential: prevention embedded in education, and education carried into the whole community.

Light helps children study at night. Knowledge helps them stay healthy for life.

Today, the 19th of February 2026 – Alex Wettstein

List of Related Organisations with Hyperlinks

• SolarBuddy: Provides solar lights to children living in energy poverty worldwide.
• Rotary International: Global service organisation supporting humanitarian education and health projects.
• UNICEF Education: Promotes child education and health awareness worldwide.
• WHO Health Promotion: Supports global strategies for preventive health communication.
• Global Fund: Finances HIV, tuberculosis and malaria prevention programs.
• UNESCO Education: Strengthens education systems in vulnerable regions.