25th of April World Malaria Day   Members of Good Link Foundation Ready for concrete actions On the 25th of April which is World Malaria day ,Good Link Foundation organised
a campaign base on unhygienic conditions which favour a suitable
breeding grown for Mosquitoes that transmit Malaria.This campaign took
place in the Bepanda Community. Malaria is the World worst health
problem at the current situation.Its is one of the major health
challenges eroding develpment in Africa and Cameroon in Particular.  In addition to the door to door campaign we had to carried Concrete Actions. Total clean up in the Bepanda neigbourhood was done by members of Good Link Foundation.Drainnage facilities were dug to facilitate water passage,grasses along the roadsides were cut down etc.Bepanda is a community with about 3000 inhabitants situated in the Douala fith district. |
Pasting of Posters with Sensitization Messages  Posters bearing messages on the negative effects of not having drainage facilities , not buliding houses with enough ventilation,not keeping the enviromnent clean were pasted in most corners of the Community .This Community is frequently submerge with water because of no drainage facilities.The water usually comes from household usages or rainfall and then create a breeding ground for Anopheles mosquitoes that causes Malaria.  Mr Mbouam Armand explaining to the inhabitant what should not be done The living condition is this Community is very poor and the unhygienic condition is unbearable. As many as six people live in a shack.The walls are lined with rotten blanks and the floor is bare earth.Their building materials are anything that comes to the hand(broken bits or board, plastic,rusty corrugated iron,mud and used bricks.  Houses built with rotten blanks surrounded all over with dirts |
In some homes roofing material is held in place of bricks tools of stones,old tyres and logs.Animals rearing such as pigs are done in close proximity to the living home.Not up to one percent of the population is in a posertion of a mosquitoe net.  Poplulation receiving tracks and brochures It was clear that things were not right in this Bepanda Community, so we thaught to bring our own contribution to help them.After the clean up campaign we also distributed tracks pleading the population to atleast respect and follow the instructions written on the tracks and brochules. Messages such as not to empty their trash in water or that their toilets and animals fences should be constructed far away from the living homes.  At the Market Square with buyers and sellers listening attentively to our message This was just the first phase of our campaign as we promise to come back with Mosquitoes nets to be distributed freely to the populations.We are now looking for means of having these Mosquiotoes nets for the Population of Bepanda Community. |
