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Sierra Leone News: UNDP engages bike riders in campaign against Ebola
Commercial motorbike riders have started an intensive awareness raising campaign that seeks to reach between 150,000 and 200,000 people over a two month period in Freetown after receiving training from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) last week in Freetown.
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Lionel Laurens Said ?UNDP is contributing to national Ebola sensitization efforts, with a specific focus on vulnerable and excluded people and communities. Okada riders were identified as a particularly vulnerable group, because of the large number of people that they come in touch with on a daily basis.?
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There are between 50,000 and 80,000 Okada riders in Freetown alone who provide a major means of transportation for ordinary citizens. Through UNDP support, an initial group of 25 riders received training on Ebola, focusing on specific messaging aiming to address the fear and myths that are fuelling new cases and driving infected people underground. The training focussed on the signs and symptoms of the disease, how the disease is and is not transmitted and how drivers can protect themselves from the disease. This first training will be followed by series of other trainings that aim to cover the entire city and then the country.
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Thursday September 11, 2014
http://awoko.org/2014/09/11/sierra-leoen-news-undp-engages-bike-riders-in-campaign-against-ebola/
Commercial motorbike riders have started an intensive awareness raising campaign that seeks to reach between 150,000 and 200,000 people over a two month period in Freetown after receiving training from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) last week in Freetown.
...
Lionel Laurens Said ?UNDP is contributing to national Ebola sensitization efforts, with a specific focus on vulnerable and excluded people and communities. Okada riders were identified as a particularly vulnerable group, because of the large number of people that they come in touch with on a daily basis.?
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There are between 50,000 and 80,000 Okada riders in Freetown alone who provide a major means of transportation for ordinary citizens. Through UNDP support, an initial group of 25 riders received training on Ebola, focusing on specific messaging aiming to address the fear and myths that are fuelling new cases and driving infected people underground. The training focussed on the signs and symptoms of the disease, how the disease is and is not transmitted and how drivers can protect themselves from the disease. This first training will be followed by series of other trainings that aim to cover the entire city and then the country.
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Thursday September 11, 2014
http://awoko.org/2014/09/11/sierra-leoen-news-undp-engages-bike-riders-in-campaign-against-ebola/