From home to the tent.. Displaced women arm themselves with awareness to confront epidemics

The Rafah municipality has launched a series of health and environmental awareness seminars targeting displaced women in the Mawasi Khan Younis camps, aiming to promote health practices and reduce the spread of infectious diseases under harsh displacement conditions.

The Rafah municipality launched a series of health and environmental education and awareness seminars, targeting women in displacement camps in the Mawasi Khan Younis area. The initiative aims to promote health practices and reduce the spread of infectious diseases that have proliferated among the displaced. The seminars target about 160 camps within Rafah's jurisdiction, according to health education official Dalia al-Jamal. The guidance includes personal hygiene, maintaining tent cleanliness, methods for dividing limited space, and the importance of ventilation. It also addresses how to handle food in the absence of electricity and refrigerators. The initiative includes a psychological support component by allowing women to talk about pressures. Displaced woman Sharifa Ramadan notes that the camp suffers from humidity, flies, and rodents, and that the arrival of awareness teams was beneficial.