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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 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.
Weekly Awesome Mozambique: JUNTOS: Youth Groups Educate the Community About Malaria
Jovens Unidos No Trabalho para Oportunidade e Sucesso—Youths United in the Work for Opportunity and Success is a co-ed club that uses different forms of communication to transmit information to students and communities. For a number of years, Peace Corps Volunteers have been working with JUNTOS groups to promote and share healthy practices through discussion, activities, and games. Recently, volunteers have focused their activities with a malaria and HIV/AIDS theme.
Weekly Awesome Tanzania: World Malaria Day in the Southern Highlands
World Malaria Day on April 25th, 2012 was celebrated by Peace Corps Volunteers and Tanzanians across the country. While many PCVs organized noteworthy events to commemorate the day, this Weekly Awesome is devoted to the work of three extraordinary volunteers from the Mbeya and Njombe (formerly the southern half of Iringa) Regions in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. These volunteers represent all sectors of Peace Corps in Tanzania (health, environment and education) and work in various settings. They adopted their interventions based on their knowledge and skills to best address the needs of their community.
Nothing like a little friendly competition.
The month of April marked Malaria Month here in Madagascar, and along with that came the malaria month competition. Volunteers were challenging each other by region for most malaria projects and third goal activities completed. There were guidelines for the amount of points that certain activities would be worth, for example a neem cream demonstration was worth 20 points, while a blog was worth 10, but volunteers got very creative with their own ideas and activities.
In the end 57 of around 140 volunteers in country and all 29 Trainees participated in the competition. And 55 of those volunteers participated in third goal activities, posting on facebook, blogging and tweeting about malaria in Madagascar and what Peace Corps volunteers are doing to prevent it.
Final Tally:
Region: Average points per volunteer (total points)
1. SUD EST: 65.3 (1240 PTS)
2. LAC ALAOTRA: 38 (228 PTS)
3. MAROANTSETRA: 35 (140 PTS)
4. FIANARANTSOA: 27.9 (475 PTS)
5. MAHAJANGA: 17.5 (70 PTS)
6. FT. DAUPHIN: 22.9 (160 PTS)
7. DIANA: 9.7 (155 PTS)
8. ANTANANARIVO: 5 (155 PTS)
Malaria Murals across Madagascar!
- Volunteers grid a mural template in order to transfer the image to a wall in their community.
- PC Staff and the Environment and Community Economic Development trainees finishing their mural in Mantasoa, Madagascar.
- PCVs Paul Johnson, Yu Sun, Matt Simms, and Maria Wimsatt with one of their eight murals in the South East of Madagascar.
- Health PCV Teena Curry (far right), with the Lycée Youth Group who completed the mural in Amparafaravola, Madagascar
- Mural in Djangoa, Madagascar done by PCV Katie Minton
For World Malaria Day 2012 (April 25th), PCV Tanya Riddle helped her organization Osivela wa Yesu (“For the Love of Jesus” in local language) organize a community fair to educate about malaria and raise awareness. Events began early in the morning with tables set up to educate the community…
