Malaria awareness launched at L&A School

TWENTY volunteers from the City University of New York, have launched a malaria awareness programme dubbed ‘Teachers against Malaria Epidemic’ at the Lilian and Abraham (L&A) Memorial Primary and Junior High School in Accra.
The volunteers are currently in the country to educate school children and their parents on the need to use mosquito treated nets. They would also provide the schools with some treated mosquito nets.
The group had earlier visited the University of Ghana, Legon and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and would be visiting some other schools in the country on a similar programme.
The volunteers would team up with teachers in the schools they visit to execute the programme.
At the L&A Memorial Primary School, the volunteers advised the teachers to ensure that the children were put in treated mosquito nets before they went to bed.
They advised the pupils to keep their environment clean to prevent them from falling sick due to sanitation problems.
The Headteacher of the School, Mr Stephen Donkor, said with the onset of the rains, people should keep their environments clean because mosquitoes which caused malaria bred in water which has gathered in ponds, holes, empty cans, among others.
He advised parents to let their children sleep in insecticide treated nets to prevent malaria.

Picture: The volunteers in a group picture after the programme.