YODRIC holds campaign on Ebola, cholera outbreaks
Acivil society organisation has embarked on a campaign to fight the cholera and Ebola outbreaks in parts of West Africa and more importantly prevent them from spreading to other countries.
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The Youth Development Research and Innovation Centre (YODRIC) has partnered two other bodies—Hope for Future Generation (HoFG) and Institute of Social Research and Development (ISRD), both civil society organisations — to make the campaign on the pandemics effective in the country.
Campaign
The campaign, which is dubbed: “Behaviourial Communication Change Campaign on Ebola and Cholera”, which was launched in October 2014, is to end in March 2015.
In the Ashanti Region, YODRIC is operating in eight assemblies — the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Asante Akyem North, Asante Akyem Central, Ejisu-Juaben, Bosomtwe, Obuasi, Kwabre East and Ahafo Ano South.
Stakeholders
At a stakeholders meeting, on the campaign at Kuntenase, the district capital of Bosomtwe , YODRIC’s Programmes Manager, Daniel Attrams, said the stakeholders meeting, which had attracted chiefs, queenmothers, assembly members, religious leaders and opinion leaders was critical in brainstorming on the diseases.
He said the stakeholders had been selected from 20 communities in each district to help in educating the public on the disease.
He cautioned that the public must refrain from certain cultural practices such as shaking of hands, handling of dead bodies and eating of bush meat, including that of bats.
YODRIC’s Ashanti Regional Co-ordinator, Mr Baah Acheamfour, said the project would rely on community members who had been educated or trained to form surveillance groups, to be vigilantes and volunteers in their communities to prevent the diseases from reaching their communities.
