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Upper West Region Malaria Education
The SWAT bucket, a toolkit for malaria education, has been traveling across the Upper West Region of Ghana. It stopped in my small farming village in mid September. First the facilitator’s malaria pictures were taken to the Primary school where over 200 smiling faces raised their hands proudly to share their knowledge about malaria prevention.more -
PCV’s in Ghana Utilize S.W.A.T. Bucket for World Malaria Day
By: Beth Davidson Emmaline Repp organized the Upper East Region World Malaria Day event with her counterpart Joe and her Persons Living With AIDS Group, in Bolga. Emma and Joe selected some more of the outgoing and long-time members of the group to train on certain elements of the SWAT Malaria Bucket. During their monthlymore -
Ghana PCV’S Come Together for World Malaria Day
By: Beth Davidson The Tamale Outreach Event took place on April 26, 2012, from 3-5PM at the VIP bus station by the main taxi rink. Initially, it was planned to hold the program at the Goil petrol station near the STC station, but problems arose and we had to move the location at the lastmore -
Peer Educators Workshop Hosted in Honor of World Malaria Day
By: Megan Kirby In the Northern Region village of Bagurugu, we commemorated World Malaria Day by holding a Peer Educators workshop for new village health volunteers. There were fifteen interested community members in attendance, including three female traditional birth attendants. Bagurugu’s two nurses, Rukia and Sala, translated and contributed informational sessions about the transmission, symptomsmore -
Ghana’s Ashanti Region holds World Malaria Day Event
By: Adam Biddle World Malaria Day in Ashanti Region took place on April 24th, 2012 in the towns of Ahodwo and Sakora Wonoo. The event started like any other event in Ghana, with loud music to draw attention. Once a crowd had formed, myself (Adam Biddle), Spencer Campbell, Amit Mookerjeet, and our Ghanaian translatormore

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