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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...”
Weekly Awesome Burkina Faso: Promoting Good Health Practices to a Low-Literate Audience
Since April 2012, PCV Clarissa has focused much of her work on researching mosquito net use in her community and educating the population about proper net use. Her village suffers from a low literacy rate. In order to overcome this obstacle, Clarissa created visual aids to be used as a survey tool. She constructed two boxes: one box with a picture of somebody sleeping under a mosquito net and one box with a picture of somebody sleeping without a mosquito net. Clarissa asks women to place a stone in either box depending on how they slept the night before. Then, Clarissa and her counterpart discuss malaria transmission, prevention techniques, and treatment strategies.
Weekly Awesome Burkina Faso: Extending Malaria Education to Rural Populations
By working outside of his health clinic, Gerard and his counterpart have targeted a population that lacks access to information about important health issues. Their mission is to teach the community of how to they can protect themselves from malaria and to reduce the incidence of malaria overall in their community.
McKenna Radunzel is an education volunteer living and working in a village in southwest Burkina Faso. McKenna works with a women’s association in her village. The association, consisting of 41 women, started to make mosquito repellent cream called neem cream.
PCV Michael Corcoran lives in a small village located in the Sourou valley of Burkina Faso. After attending malaria training with the president of his village COGES (the committee that serves as an intermediary between his local health clinic and the community), Michael and his counterpart decided to work together to develop a series of door to door mosquito net campaigns.
Weekly Awesome Mozambique: Mocuba World Malaria Day Fair
For World Malaria Day 2012 (April 25th), PCV Tanya Riddle helped the local organization Osivela wa Yesu (“For the Love of Jesus” in local language) organize a community fair to educate the population about malaria and raise awareness of prevention strategies.
