Whiz Kids Workshop was recently awarded a three-year grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which will greatly strengthen our ability to promote healthy behavioral habits, especially among children.
Healthy Whiz Kids
The goal of Healthy Whiz Kids is to contribute to enhancing children and parents’ knowledge and positive attitudes towards hygiene, nutrition, safety and other healthy behaviors. Building on existing partnerships and local leadership for the development of media projects, we have a key role to play in transforming the way health education is approached for children in Ethiopia.
The project includes production of 39 health-focused episodes of Tsehai Loves Learning and the establishment of three Tsehai Resource Corners and one Tsehai Resource Center. Stay tuned for details on location and opening. The center will be free and open to the public.
Health News
Conducting Soft Children Festival at Addis Raey Primary School Primary school teacher incorporates health-focused educational media in her classroom With the help of a giraffe, education in Ethiopia is reaching new heights. After more than eight years of teaching, Abeba Eyasu, a primary school teacher at Addis Ababa Bole Gerji Primary School, was surprised to learn through a USAID-sponsored program that children’s learning is Healthy Whiz Kids episodes and books are now being widely distributed through partnering organizations. Thousands more children under the age of eight can now enjoy and be inspired by twelve story books that weave tales touching on thirty-nine health topics and other child development issues in different centers such as orphanages home village, orphanage schools and In 2015, during the close out of the first round Tsehai Loves Learning –Healthy Whiz Kids project a research was conducted in collaboration with the Blue Butterfly to measure impact of the project. Findings of the research showed that the television episodes of the Tsehai Loves Learning- Healthy Whiz Kids program doubled children’s health knowledge. Whiz Kids Workshop Partners with Amhara Mass Media Agency Whiz Kids Workshop is delighted to begin its partnership with the Amhara Mass Media Agency which began on August 6th, 2016. Tsehai Loves Learning is now airing on Amhara TV and Radio Network in addition to airing on Ethiopian Broadcasting Cooperation’s network channel EBC3. Through the Over 12,000 children and parents have received health education at Tsehai Resource Centers In August of 2015, Whiz Kids Workshop (WKW) developed a Community Resource Center in order to provide a place where families could gain knowledge about health related topics through play. This action was a part of the Healthy Whiz Kids (HWK) initiative. Using the media to build a positive image for Healthy Whiz Kids Whiz Kids Workshop has launched an advertisement campaign which can make Healthy Whiz Kids a well-known project. The first step was setting up interviews with famous radio shows around the city, in search of a good radio show that can build a positive WHIZ KIDS WORKSHOP TRAINS AAU STUDENTS ON DATA COLLECTION PROCESS Whiz Kids Workshop has taken another step on Healthy Whiz Kids Initiative which aims at addressing the lack of proper health education among children through the upcoming season of Tsehai. From 17th to 19th March 2015, Whiz Kids Team in collaboration with Blue Butterfly Collaborative Here’s an Involve Me; Watch Me Sneak Peak, our upcoming series to be released for the United Kingdom’s Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC). Working with Link Community Development Ethiopia (LCDE), Whiz Kids has devised a multimedia platform which allows young people to create film about the challenges they face and introduce them to a role model who Overview Think you have what it takes to write a script for the upcoming season of Tsehai? Well this is your chance. Participate in the Healthy Whiz Kids Script Writing Challenge. Read the rules and guidelines below, write a script, then submit it for consideration. Winners will see their script come to life on television and
Whiz Kids Workshop: Innovative Children Festival
Tsehai Helps Students Love Learning
Health Resources Reaching More Kids: Using Partnerships to Multiply Distribution
Modernizing Data Collection Leads to Bigger Possibilities in Ethiopia’s Education System
Tsehai Loves Learning on Amhara TV and Radio Station
Resource Centers Teach Over 12,000
Showcasing the Healthy Whiz Kids Project
HEALTHY WK INITIATIVE
Involve Me; Watch Me Sneak Peak
Healthy Whiz Kids Script Writing Challenge
