Youth activists in Georgia raise public awareness on Bird Flu
Implemented in coordination with the Public health Department of Georgia and local public health units, the young campaigners targeted Shops, schools, pharmacies, local markets and other public places.
Implemented in coordination with the Public health Department of Georgia and local public health units, the young campaigners targeted Shops, schools, pharmacies, local markets and other public places They gave citizens information on some of the ways on how to protect themselves from the disease and numbers of the hotlines they were supposed to call in case of further questions arising as well as information leaflets.
During visits to over 40 schools in rural and urban areas hundreds of kilmometres from Tbilisi, the campaigners gave interactive presentations in schools. Younger school children did drawings to reflect their impressions of the information they had been given.
"One of the three regions targeted was Ajara, a region on the Black Sea coast where they already found dead birds with H5N1 infection and the population feels vulnerable to the disease," says Maiko Baiadze, Youth Health Education and Civic Participation Coordinator. "This region is a high priority one as it usually has a big concentration of people in summer and early autumn, which is the time for bird migration."
Everyone seemed interested, especially children and young people that helped to communicate information to others
"The awareness campaign took lots of efforts, but we are all happy and believe that our action will have the result we wanted it to have", said Dato Gabelia, member of the initiative group in Ajara. "I think we achieved the goal. The populations in our districts are now more or less informed about the Bird Flu. Everyone seemed interested, especially children and young people that helped to communicate information to others."
This awareness campaign organized by the young people is part of a larger campaign implemented by World Vision Georgia through its Food-for-Work program that has distributed 23,000 information leaflets and reached about 92,000 people in rural communities throughout the country.
Community Youth Centres of Imereti, Kakheti and Ajara were set up through Learners for Life project funded by European Union and World Vision Austria.
Implemented in coordination with the Public health Department of Georgia and local public health units, the young campaigners targeted Shops, schools, pharmacies, local markets and other public places They gave citizens information on some of the ways on how to protect themselves from the disease and numbers of the hotlines they were supposed to call in case of further questions arising as well as information leaflets.
During visits to over 40 schools in rural and urban areas hundreds of kilmometres from Tbilisi, the campaigners gave interactive presentations in schools. Younger school children did drawings to reflect their impressions of the information they had been given.
"One of the three regions targeted was Ajara, a region on the Black Sea coast where they already found dead birds with H5N1 infection and the population feels vulnerable to the disease," says Maiko Baiadze, Youth Health Education and Civic Participation Coordinator. "This region is a high priority one as it usually has a big concentration of people in summer and early autumn, which is the time for bird migration."
Everyone seemed interested, especially children and young people that helped to communicate information to others
"The awareness campaign took lots of efforts, but we are all happy and believe that our action will have the result we wanted it to have", said Dato Gabelia, member of the initiative group in Ajara. "I think we achieved the goal. The populations in our districts are now more or less informed about the Bird Flu. Everyone seemed interested, especially children and young people that helped to communicate information to others."
This awareness campaign organized by the young people is part of a larger campaign implemented by World Vision Georgia through its Food-for-Work program that has distributed 23,000 information leaflets and reached about 92,000 people in rural communities throughout the country.
Community Youth Centres of Imereti, Kakheti and Ajara were set up through Learners for Life project funded by European Union and World Vision Austria.
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