Drobonso (Ash), June 11, GNA – Vision for Action Foundation (VAF), a community-based NGO has taken the COVID-19 education campaign to the Sekyere Afram Plains District.
The aim is to help increase the understanding of the people, especially those in rural and deprived communities on the dangers of the coronavirus, its mode of transmission, and the various preventive and restrictive protocols outlined by the government to prevent the further spread of the disease.
Mr. Justice Boafo Owuraku, the Project Coordinator, speaking at one of the educational programmes at Drobonso, the district capital, said the exercise was not only to augment government’s efforts at curbing the spread of the disease but also to step up public education campaigns in rural communities for the people to understand the dangers of the disease.
He said accurate information on the disease could help reduce stigmatization and change the mindset of the people towards the disease.
Mr. Owuraku said volunteers from the various zones in the district would be equipped with the needed knowledge and skills to monitor the various measures being implemented by the District Covid-19 Response Team to tackle the spread of the virus.
They would also assess the installation and use of personal preventive equipment such as Veronica buckets, detergents, tissue papers, wearing of nose masks and others, in the various communities.
Mr. Owuraku, said the education programme, which was implemented under the “I am aware” Project, which was being sponsored by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), was a social action programme to monitor and collect data on the adherence to government’s protocols on COVID-19.
Alhaji Halidu Adams, District Chief Imam of the Sekyere Afram Plains and member of the group’s volunteers, commended the NGO and CDD-Ghana for the education exercise and urged the participants to transfer lessons learnt to colleague community members devoid of politics.
GNA