instagram.com
Instagram photo by Peace Corps Senegal
Afternoon nap. Rainy season is upon us and the increased number of mosquitos lurking around puts children at risk for getting malaria. Check out this baby version of a mosquito net!
Worked with local clinic staff to distribute 150 mosquito nets to those most severely affected by malaria. Children under 5 and the elderly.
Last week, my counterpart and I attended Peace Corps The Gambia’s first Mini STOMP Boot Camp. STOMP is the Peace Corps Africa Region’s malaria initiative. Although a big STOMP Out Malaria Conference is held several times a year for Volunteers, counterparts (the main people that Volunteers work with on a daily basis) cannot attend. Mini STOMP gave my counterpart and I the opportunity to work together for 3.5 days to develop a project that aims to reduce the prevalence of malaria and increase the number of households with individuals sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets each night, regardless of whether they sleep inside or outside. So much hard work went into putting on this event by other Peace Corps Volunteers and staff, but I would be remiss for not highlighting my counterpart’s hard work and amazing dedication to making our village the healthiest that it can be.
Malaria essay competition winners #stompoutmalaria #Malawi #malaria #stompwmm2016 #pcmalawiswag #pcmalawi #students #top #smart #write #learn #healthybehaviors #health
(Source: happyhealthdeveloper-blog)
Malaria sucks. Having holes in the net that’s supposed to protect you from malaria also sucks.
The nursing school in my community has sent 43 nursing and midwifery students to my health center for 4 weeks of hands-on training. That also means fresh blood I get to work with. With patients attended to and other staff long gone, an afternoon of nothing to do meant an opportunity for us to talk about how best to educate our community about preventing malaria. While we discussed many strategies, we focused on sleeping under a mosquito net at night - from care to repair, we covered it all. They learned how to fix holes in their nets and identified people in their community they will share the new knowledge with. And one by one, we will stomp malaria out of Oleba.
@stompoutmalaria #malaria #WMM #stompoutmalaria #uganda #peacecorps #peacecorpsuganda #thirdgoal #howiseepc
Just lovin this pic @toreyhart19 #credit #friends #fresh #healthybehaviors #grs #malaria #Malawi #health #malariamonthmalawi #play #pcmalawi #pcmalawiswag #youth #learning through #games #bednetball
(Source: happyhealthdeveloper-blog)
Parabéns to PCV Henrique for providing malaria education talks and distributing 100 mosquito nets to orphan vulnerable children and their foster families over the past two days!!!!!!! @stompoutmalaria #peacecorps
Tremendous progress has been made in the fight against malaria.
6.2 million lives have been saved since 2000 and over 100 countries are now malaria-free!
But now is not the time to rest, we have new goals to reach by 2030 in order to see a malaria-free world http://ow.ly/PuB2C
Learn more at RollBack Malaria <http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/>
Peace Corps Volunteers around the world are working to fight malaria. Join the movement today: http://www.peacecorps.gov/openings/
Malaria game: Simon says-style malaria symptoms game. Participants had actions for each symptom and pcv would say ‘Kristina tem…’ And a symptom and of they did they action they were out! (PCV Kristina)
Angelina’s Smile
Angelina comes running up after school yelling ‘Sister Johanna, Sister Johanna!’. I smile and can’t help laugh as she looks up at me in her faded school dress. She smiles the biggest smile you’ve ever seen and grabs a stack of nets to carry on her head to help. We’re in the middle of a net distribution as part of Ghana Health Service’s ‘Roll Out Campaign’.
As we distribute and hang net in every household, one per married couple and one for every two children, Angelina runs back and forth from where we store the nets, making the process go a little quicker. She’s one of my most favorite people in my village but her name can be deceiving. Asking for a coin to buy a water sachet because she’s thirsty, she comes back smacking on a piece of bubble gum. My counterpart George Atoanan and I try to scold her but end up laughing instead! Even though she’s devious, she our little helper for the day and puts a smile on our face.
I’ve visited with her family since the campaign and see that the treated mosquito nets are still hung and I can rest assured she’s sleeping safe every night. Because she’s healthy and malaria-free, she can continue to smile her mischievous smile every day.
- Peace Corps Health Volunteer Johanna Twiford
Collaborate. Share. Act. End it.
Happy World Malaria Day!
Peace Corps Health Volunteer Danielle Dunlap and Peace Corps Agriculture Volunteer Katie Woodruff team up while making neem cream during a demonstration in Cape Coast, Ghana.
Neem cream is a natural mosquito repellent made from inexpensive local resources, including leaves of the neem tree, shea butter and soap, that helps prevent mosquito bites which can transmit malaria.
Young girls in Senegal find a little joy in the bed nets that help prevent malaria.
(Source: facebook.com)
