Out Run EBOLA: awareness/protection for children

Surviving Ebola is like rebirth. Survivors of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) returned to empty homes because most of what they owned including household and personal items are lost during the attempt to contain the spread of the virus. 

When diagnosed with Ebola and removed to the Ebola Treatment Units, your household items are sprayed with chlorine and the majority (if not all) burned to avoid the contamination of more people. Most of the items lost during such exercises are household materials and personal items including beddings, mattresses, clothes, documents, goods for trading at the markets, and any other items found in their homes by the sanitation and chlorination teams. 

Neglected and stigmatized by community members and sometimes by their  families, sur-vivors of Ebola returning from the ETUs are left all alone to start their lives over, having nothing.

UNFPA in collaboration with THINK being cognizant of these issues  brought a sigh of relief and joy to about 1000 female survivors of EVD, SGBV and Ebola widows (15 years old and above) from six counties; Grand Cape Mount, Bomi, Montserrado, Margibi, Nimba and Lofa through the distribution of dignity kits. With funding from the Embassy of Sweden, UNFPA purchased and distributed about 1000 Dignity Kits to survivors. Each Dignity Kits comprised of one double-bed mattress, bed sheet, under clothes, bath soap, body lotion, laundry soap, toiletries, sanitary napkins, lappas, and T-shirts.

THINK and UNFPA worked with survivors and widows in the six counties to ascertain the effect of Ebola on their lives post Ebola. UNFPA is keen on following up on the health and reintegration chal-lenges faced by women who survived Ebola; especially their psychosocial and reproductive health needs, so as to design programs of responses that are adequate.