That is a lot!!
April 25th was World Malaria Day, and April is Malaria Month - so it was time to get down to business.
The district hospital planned a health fair to promote tetanus shots for children, blood donation, and rapid tests for Malaria, HIV, and glucose levels.
However, I have an amazing group called REDES (Raparigas em Desenvolvimento de Educacao e Saude, or Girls for the Development of Education and Health), and they came to the rescue to give the Health Fair some Anti-Malaria Pizzazz! We had talked earlier in the week about some common misconceptions about malaria, and found that many members had understood that malaria could be transmitted through water. So, the girls set off in packs with bags of lollipops to ask unsuspecting passers-by how malaria is transmitted - as long as they said just from mosquitoes they got lollipops! (The girls took a well-deserved heavy tax on the pops as well). Lucky for us, the word "redes" in portuguese ALSO means "net," so we set up a mosquito net in the middle of the fair to show all of Mandimba how it is done.
However, I have an amazing group called REDES (Raparigas em Desenvolvimento de Educacao e Saude, or Girls for the Development of Education and Health), and they came to the rescue to give the Health Fair some Anti-Malaria Pizzazz! We had talked earlier in the week about some common misconceptions about malaria, and found that many members had understood that malaria could be transmitted through water. So, the girls set off in packs with bags of lollipops to ask unsuspecting passers-by how malaria is transmitted - as long as they said just from mosquitoes they got lollipops! (The girls took a well-deserved heavy tax on the pops as well). Lucky for us, the word "redes" in portuguese ALSO means "net," so we set up a mosquito net in the middle of the fair to show all of Mandimba how it is done.
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| Getting excited about Mozzie Nets in Mandimba! |
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| Demonstrating how to have fun under a net! |
Additionally, a local Niassa band came to play in Mandimba to spread messages about health - they focused largely on water and sanitation issues. It was a great show.
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| Massukos Plays Mandimba |
Happy End of Malaria Month to all!
#StompOutMalaria #BAMM 2013
#StompOutMalaria #BAMM 2013
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