Tagged: community mobilization

Four ladies in traditional Afghan dresses talk to each other in a room

Saving lives in the mountains of northern Afghanistan

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This blog post is part of a content series published by UNICEF in the lead-up to the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, which will take place from 25-26 October in Astana, Kazakhstan. Learn more about the conference. Nestled in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, the village of Charkent is both beautiful and remote. Like much… Read more →←
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Ebola ‘don don’: returning to normal in rural Sierra Leone

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When travelling around Kabala city in Koinadugu district of Sierra Leone, there are times it feels like a corner of paradise on earth. The little guest house is surrounded by verdant mountains, capped by cotton-wool clouds above wooded slopes. There’s a slight nip in the air, which you don’t get back in the capital. Shortly after… Read more →←
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Toilets transform communities in rural Angola

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I recently returned from a trip to visit rural villages in Angola to look at the impact that UNICEF’s sanitation partnership with Andrex is having on children and families there. It’s incredible to think that seven out of ten people living in rural Angola do not have a clean, safe toilet to use. This has a huge impact on the health… Read more →←
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Last time out of Ebola quarantine in Sierra Leone?

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I have a vivid memory of the first time I heard predictions of a “bumpy road” to zero Ebola cases. It was December 2014 and I was up-country in the town of Kenema (south-east Sierra Leone) close to the place where Ebola was first recorded in the country. We were listening to the radio in a dusty hotel courtyard as we prepared for a… Read more →←
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Developing communities in Sierra Leone

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Two things immediately strike you when you arrive in the village of Thigbonor in Lokomasama chiefdom: the place is extremely tidy, and the high street is almost deserted. After a four hour drive from Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, we park under a large banana plant, and follow people’s indications to the outskirts of the village.… Read more →←
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The day after the end of the outbreak

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With the World Health Organization declaration on Saturday that the 18-month Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone was officially over, it was a poignant weekend. On Sunday morning, when the champagne glasses hadn’t yet been cleaned, the crowds were still dispersing from the overnight beach parties, and the church congregations were dancing… Read more →←
Traditional healers and members of the community from Kaffu Bullom Chiefdom, Port Loko District gather to discuss Ebola prevention and the role of traditional healers

This Neighbourhood Watch Group is determined to keep Ebola out

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Arriving in Mamusa village in Port Loko, we are greeted by the rows of houses cordoned off by bright orange plastic fencing. For the past 21 days, 134 people who had come in contact with an Ebola victim have been quarantined in their homes. Today, the fences will come down. “Not a single person ran away from here,” exclaims Pastor… Read more →←

In Guinea, responding to Ebola by addressing rumors and resistance

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One of the most persistent rumors, Roger tells me, is that the smoke from the generators in the Ebola treatment centers is really the bodies of the infected being burned. Roger Lamah is a Communications for Development specialist working for UNICEF in the Forecariah prefecture in Guinea, one of the few remaining Ebola hotspots in the… Read more →←
Andrew and Emma are two Ebola survivors volunteering in Kambia to educate and sensitize communities.

Meet two Ebola survivors fighting the disease in Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone has come a long way since the peak of Ebola cases, and so have Emma (23) and Andrew (26) in Kambia district. Epidemiologically and mentally they are survivors – determined to restart their lives so violently disrupted at the height of the Ebola outbreak in late 2014. Back then the country recorded hundreds of new cases a… Read more →←

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