Workshop: Dodi Island – Guinea Worm Disease (GWD) EradicationAND project on the Dodi Island

Phase 2: Project on Dodi Island

1. Programme

The first day was a cross section of Chiefs, elders, the youth and the volunteers (AFRICA UNITED YOUTH ASSOCIATION) for the introduction and mission. The President of the Africa United Youth Association emphasized control interventions and safe / treated source of drinking water. The volunteers or the various groups who carried out both education and health treatment were largely motivated by the president, as well as the group leaders. Every volunteer showed the spirit of commitment and delivered as expected. The association also took notice of pregnant / nursing mothers and treated them all in the Dodi Island.

At the end of the one week, AFRICA UNITED YOUTH ASSOCIATION, formed a village health network to help the people in Dodi Island to play a role that will promote the use of the various drugs, mosquito nets, safety jackets and nylon filters donated. Read the rest of this entry »

Workshop: Dodi Island – Guinea Worm Disease (GWD) EradicationAND project on the Dodi Island

Background – Objectives – Related Topics – Action Plan – Group Members – Activities/Remarks – Observations – Recommendation – References – Future Plans – Conclusion

DODI ISLAND GUINEA WORM ERADICATION PROJECT – REPORT
By Wisdom Ekissi, project leader (And post agric Associate)

The project consisted of two phases. In the first phase, the members of African United Youth Association (AUYA) participated in a workshop. In the second phase, the team went to Dodi Island

THE GOALS OF THE PROJECT ON DODI ISLAND – Educate treatment and promote ecotourism etc. Read the rest of this entry »

9 May 2011

A  British-based international charity has expressed great satisfaction over its partnership with a number of Liberian non-governmental organizations.

The Catholic Agency For Overseas Development or CAFOD said it is impressed with the level of relief work done thus far by Don Bosco Homes, the Center for Justice and Peace Studies and CARITAS-Gbarnga with regards to the partnership’s Emergency Relief Project in the Glaalay Community, Zogeh District in Nimba county, as well as other projects in Ganta and Virginia, outside Monrovia. Read the rest of this entry »

Vatican City – 21 March 2011

The Holy Father appointed Fr Anthony Fallah Borwah, professor of philosophy at the University of Liberia and administrator of the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Monrovia, as bishop of Gbarnga (area 34,000, population 1,400,000 Catholics 18,000, priests 7, religious 23), Liberia. The bishop-elect was born in Wodu, Liberia in 1965 and ordained priest in 1996.

8 April 2011

IVORY COAST faces a humanitarian disaster as a result of the recent escalation of a civil war, a representative of a UK-based aid agency that works in the region said this week.
The regional manager of West Africa and the Great Lakes for the Roman Catholic aid agency CAFOD, Antonio Cabral, returned from the Liberian-Ivory Coast border last week, and saw at first hand some of the 100,000 refugees who have fled the country during the recent violence. Read the rest of this entry »