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  • Burkina Faso Stompers Unite!

    The Burkina Faso Malaria Team held a training of trainers for twelve Peace Corps Volunteers and their counter-parts in Bobo-Dioulasso. In addition, three children present with their mothers also attended part of the training. Over three days, participants engaged in a variety of session, from general information to bed net manipulations to creating radio spots
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  • Using local markets to promote mosquito net useage in Southwest Burkina Faso

    In the Southwest Region of Burkina Faso, volunteer Elisabeth Chop is working hard to help prevent and treat malaria. With World Malaria Day recently celebrated April 25, and rainy season fast approaching, which means a dramatic increase in malaria cases with all the standing water, Elisabeth Chop and her counterpart took the opportunity to raise
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  • Burkina Faso Volunteer Helps Out with Community Bednet Census

    It is hot season, but in Northern Burkina Faso the fight to stomp out malaria continues on. Second year non-formal education volunter, Sara Goodman, recently conducted a mosquito net census in her village in order to prepare her village and her local health clinic staff for the upcoming universal bed net distribution campaign. Sara partnered
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  • First Annual Women’s Health and Leadership Conference works to Stomp Out Malaria in Burkina Faso

    Peace Corps Burkina Faso’s Gender and Development Committee (GAD) held its first annual Women’s Health and Leadership Conference April 10-12, 2013. The conference focused on gender empowerment, leadership, and common health issues faced by women in Burkina Faso.  Participants included 8 PCVs and 8 Burkinabe counterparts from all across the country. Facilitators included 5  PCVs
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  • Malaria Mural at Local Health Clinic

    A malaria mural has hit Thyou, Burkina Faso! Trevor Pratt and Sara Chandler, volunteers in Thyou and Sala, are helping to Stomp Out Malaria in Africa! They spent three days painting a mural at the local health clinic. The wall where the mural is painted faces the main street in the village attracting much attention
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  • Peace Corps Burkina Faso Forms A New Partnership

    The Country Director of Peace Corps Burkina Faso, Jill Zarchin, and the Country Director for John Snow, Inc. (JSI), Parfait Edah, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on February 20, 2013 at the Peace Corps office in Ouagadougou. The MOU establishes a close collaboration between these two organizations while simultaneously providing support to the efforts
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  • Burkina Faso Launches Regional Malaria Coordinators Program!

    On Saturday, January 19th, the Stomp Team in Burkina Faso officially launched our new Regional Malaria Coordinators Program! Nine Volunteers representing seven regions (based on volunteer density) traveled to Ouagadougou to participate in a mini-malaria bootcamp. Participants discussed possible malaria activities, energizing and engaging Volunteers in Stomp Out Malaria, upcoming national campaigns, and important resources
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  • Burkina Faso Welcomes New Trainees with Malaria Workshops

    Burkina Faso has just received 26 new Health and Daba (environment) trainees (PCTs) and the Stomp Out Malaria Team had the privilege of presenting two fantastic workshops during their training. The Stomp Team presented two sessions during the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2: An Introduction to Malaria Prevention and Malaria Interventions, both of which are
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  • Burkina Faso Goes to Bootcamp!

    These past two weeks have been an incredible experience for the Malaria Team in Burkina Faso, as we added three new members to the ranks of STOMP graduates. PCV Alex Kuznetsov, third year PCV Emily Engel, and Response Volunteer and Stomp Coordinator Meredith Baker all completed Boot Camp V in Thies, Senegal. They participated in
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  • Weekly Awesome Burkina Faso: Promoting Good Bed Net Usage to a Low Literate Audience

    Clarissa Pape is a health volunteer posted in the eastern region of Burkina Faso. Upon arriving in her village in December 2011, she noticed that most people in her community had mosquito nets, but many were not properly using the nets. She noticed that some people did not hang their nets properly, many nets had
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