Tobacco control laws and Students teaching teachers
The Health Education Against Tobacco (HEAT) project is working with the Legal Department of Ulaanbaatar city’s Governor’s office to improve tobacco control in Ulaanbaatar city. The HEAT project (supported by AusAid and ADRA Australia) team and the Legal Department established a working group on tobacco control, which is headed by the Deputy Governor of Ulaanbaatar city.
Members were chosen from other departments of Ulaanbaatar city’s Governor’s office, including representatives from Sukhbaatar district. The working group is putting together an activity plan for 2010-2011. As part of this plan, the working group members conducted a seminar named “Participation of the district and sub district governments in implementation of Tobacco Control Law” for government officials. So far, this seminar was organized for five out of nine districts of the city. Participants included officials, governors of districts, inspectors, and other stakeholders. Also this month, one of the project’s target schools initiated and organized an anti tobacco training for 57 young teachers from 19 schools. This event was organized jointly with the Young Teachers’ Association. This was a new and innovative kind of training because children thought that teachers are the only ones who teach, however in this training students were giving lessons on tobacco issues to their teachers.
