by Engage Now Africa Staff | Aug 18, 2020 | COVID-19 Response, Education, ENA, Healthcare, Sierra Leone, Uncategorized
On July 20th, our Lyn Maternal Health Clinic medical staff gathered with our Ghana staff for COVID-19 training. This training was designed to teach health prevention practices in a viral pandemic, to ensure the medical staff continues to maintain an exemplary standard...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Aug 18, 2020 | Country, COVID-19 Response, Education, Ghana, Heal, Uncategorized
Our Ghanaian staff worked closely with our sister organization Ensign College of Public Health and it’s innovative Health2Go initiative, to design COVID-19 education and prevention brochures, posters and banners. Our goal is to build on past health intervention...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Aug 6, 2020 | Country, COVID-19 Response, ENA, Ghana, Heal
Our COVID-19 prevention efforts have centered in rural communities outside of Accra. Our team created a baseline survey to better understand community knowledge and spread of COVID-19. We trained and deployed health care facilitators and volunteers to create...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Aug 6, 2020 | Country, COVID-19 Response, ENA, Ethiopia, Heal
In Ethiopia, we created a task force that partnered with the Ministry of Health and our network of healthcare providers, doctors, nurses and technicians to create a COVID-19 prevention initiative. In isolated communities, our team educated thousands on virus...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Aug 6, 2020 | COVID-19 Response, Ethiopia, Heal
The pandemic has shown we are only as safe as our most vulnerable people. The virus poses a threat everywhere. Members of our task force found that families in rural villages did not have access to much-needed information on how to protect themselves from contagion....
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Aug 6, 2020 | COVID-19 Response, Ethiopia, Heal
COVID19 is still a threat to the most vulnerable in Ethiopia and we want to ensure that no one is left behind. We continue to run our rural hygiene and sanitation seminars while our our health care partners travel door to door to teach sanitation and hand-washing...