July 10, 2014
African Minerals Limited continues with its awareness raising campaigns on Ebola as part of its health and safety commitment to employees and communities at the mines, port and rail operations in Tonkolili and Pepel, north of the country.
The initiative, being undertaken by the community relations department with support from all other departments at AML, was inspired by the recent visit of the chairman, Frank Timis, who came in the country at the height of the Ebola outbreak and gave his moral support to the government and people of Sierra Leone. He spent days meeting with his employees and local authorities to encourage confidence and give help respectively. The latest of such sensitization moves, especially in relocated communities in the Kalasonsogia, Sambaya and Kafesimira chiefdoms, were done in local languages and with simple messages on the nature of the sickness, its symptoms, its effects on people and society and most importantly how it could be avoided.
Local authorities, community youth groups and other stakeholders were capacitated to mobilise their people at Court Barries, community halls, chief compounds and open fields where megaphones, videos and huge speakers, were used to pass on the messages. The activity, which started on Wednesday 2July in these chiefdoms, would end on 14 July. “We use video messages compiled by the ministry of health in collaboration with UNFPA and the Sierra Leone Red Cross, to pass the message across to our local communities. We started at new Ferengbaia, targeting relocated communities of Foria, Wondugu and Feregbaia”, said Isata Tejan, a nurse in the community relations department. She explained that the messages were well understood based on the type of questions people asked about the disease at the end of the meetings, adding that they started by targeting school children and later met with chiefdom elders, ‘mammy queens’, young men and women... -http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/68884
African Minerals Limited continues with its awareness raising campaigns on Ebola as part of its health and safety commitment to employees and communities at the mines, port and rail operations in Tonkolili and Pepel, north of the country.
The initiative, being undertaken by the community relations department with support from all other departments at AML, was inspired by the recent visit of the chairman, Frank Timis, who came in the country at the height of the Ebola outbreak and gave his moral support to the government and people of Sierra Leone. He spent days meeting with his employees and local authorities to encourage confidence and give help respectively. The latest of such sensitization moves, especially in relocated communities in the Kalasonsogia, Sambaya and Kafesimira chiefdoms, were done in local languages and with simple messages on the nature of the sickness, its symptoms, its effects on people and society and most importantly how it could be avoided.
Local authorities, community youth groups and other stakeholders were capacitated to mobilise their people at Court Barries, community halls, chief compounds and open fields where megaphones, videos and huge speakers, were used to pass on the messages. The activity, which started on Wednesday 2July in these chiefdoms, would end on 14 July. “We use video messages compiled by the ministry of health in collaboration with UNFPA and the Sierra Leone Red Cross, to pass the message across to our local communities. We started at new Ferengbaia, targeting relocated communities of Foria, Wondugu and Feregbaia”, said Isata Tejan, a nurse in the community relations department. She explained that the messages were well understood based on the type of questions people asked about the disease at the end of the meetings, adding that they started by targeting school children and later met with chiefdom elders, ‘mammy queens’, young men and women... -http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/68884
AML on Ebola community campaigns
African
Minerals Limited continues with its awareness raising campaigns on
Ebola as part of its health and safety commitment to employees and
communities at the mines, port and rail operations in Tonkolili and
Pepel, north of the country. (Photo: Nurse Isata engages school children)
The initiative, being undertaken by the
community relations department with support from all other departments
at AML, was inspired by the recent visit of the chairman, Frank Timis,
who came in the country at the height of the Ebola outbreak and gave his
moral support to the government and people of Sierra Leone. He spent
days meeting with his employees and local authorities to encourage
confidence and give help respectively.
The latest of such sensitization moves,
especially in relocated communities in the Kalasonsogia, Sambaya and
Kafesimira chiefdoms, were done in local languages and with simple
messages on the nature of the sickness, its symptoms, its effects on
people and society and most importantly how it could be avoided.
Local authorities, community youth
groups and other stakeholders were capacitated to mobilise their people
at Court Barries, community halls, chief compounds and open fields where
megaphones, videos and huge speakers, were used to pass on the
messages. The activity, which started on Wednesday 2July in these
chiefdoms, would end on 14 July.
“We use video messages compiled by the
ministry of health in collaboration with UNFPA and the Sierra Leone Red
Cross, to pass the message across to our local communities. We started
at new Ferengbaia, targeting relocated communities of Foria, Wondugu and
Feregbaia”, said Isata Tejan, a nurse in the community relations
department.
She explained that the messages were
well understood based on the type of questions people asked about the
disease at the end of the meetings, adding that they started by
targeting school children and later met with chiefdom elders, ‘mammy
queens’, young men and women.
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