Environmental health promotion takes priority in Mpumalanga

The Mpumalanga Provincial Sanitation Committee (Prosco) initiated and funded the Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) workshop for health promoters and environmental health officers. Mpumalanga is one of the nine provinces of South Africa and is situated in the eastern part of the country bordered by Swaziland and Mozambique. The Provincial Sanitation Committee comprised of government departments and NGOs including Mvula Trust. Its mandate is to formalise a planned and a strategic approach to sanitation policy and implementation, thus ensuring proper co-ordination of all programmes in the province.