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Meet this month’s Champion for Children from Cheshegu ,Ghana. Memunatu Abukari is a seamstress, a mother-of-two, and the wife of a local...
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“I’m inspired by the work of Peace Corps Volunteers around the world. Volunteers share their creativity and compassion with...
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Life in the Peace Corps will not be easy. There will be no salary and allowances will be at a level sufficient only to maintain health and meet...
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“It’s very good news that the Global Fund is re-opening for business. Now we can stop wasting time, which is the most precious resource in this fight...”
The idea was simple: to get a village to see how much money they spend treating malaria every year so that they would be motivated to sleep under their mosquito nets and prevent the disease in the first place. How did Senegal Peace Corps Volunteer Ben Gascoigne illustrate this statistic? By speaking to people’s stomachs: he lined the road from the village mosque to the health post with 196 sacks of rice - the number of sacks the village could have purchased with the money they instead spent on treating malaria. The display was a huge success - people finally took notice and Ben’s net care and repair demonstrations were a huge hit.
Illustrating a statistic: PCV Ben Gascoigne helps his village see how much money they spend on malaria prevention every year.
Just linked another 10 blogs to our BAMM page that you should check out. Read about how volunteers in Senegal are using empty rice sacks to make a difference in malaria (I promise it’s a good one). How volunteers in Ethiopia are working with schools to educate youth on how to protect themselves. How volunteers in Madagascar are turning tea time into an opportunity to spread the word with Tea and Talk Time!
You can see them all at:
stompoutmalaria.org/blog-about-malaria-month
