Covid-19 Safety Campaign Project.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic loss of human lives worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health. Disruption to food systems and impacts on livelihoods and diets have been brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The Naa oo Naa Foundation as part of its mission to promote the livelihood of persons in Ghana and as part of its efforts to contribute its quota to fight the dreaded corona virus pandemic in Ghana embarked on a Corona Virus Safety Campaign which saw a distribution of Free Hand Sanitizers, Facemasks and Veronica Buckets across the Bus Stations and the Markets in Odorkor, Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly.
At the program, the Founder of the foundation, Ms. Racheal Aryee emphasized that it has become necessary for NGOs to make an impact towards battling the corona virus global pandemic, through public education, donation of PPEs. She stated, “It is important that, as an NGO, we also contribute our quota to making the community a better place for all". The Naa oo Naa foundation decided to target the market women and the commercial bus drivers because these ones are largely not technologically inclined and so there is no easy flow of information to them on covid-19.
It is difficult for our mothers and fathers, and the grassroots-based individuals to get information through social media and other non-traditional medium of communication, hence the need to go to the grassroots to educate them on the need to observe the Covid-19 protocol.
Ms Aryee went ahead to highlight the various Covid -19 protocols, and with the assistance of Ms Lilian Nortey, a nurse at Greater Accra Regional Hospital-Ridge and a medical team member of the foundation, demonstrated to the beneficiaries the right way to wear face masks and proper way of hand washing and, procedure to observe social distancing.
The program was also graced by the Ghana Health Service which was represented by the Ablekuma North Municipal Health Information Director, Mr. Wilson Addai Asare Oyiadzo, who emphasized that, the traders and customers without PPEs are not allowed to enter the Odorkor market and bus station, as part of the effort to mitigate the spread of the virus.
The Information Services Department; a state agency under Ministry of information was also represented by Madam Mercy Nana Serwaa Asante, the Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly Information Officer.
The foundation has demonstrated example worth emulating, and all Ghanaians share in the responsibility to help contain the spread of the virus.
