By Rosana Schaack | Project Manager/ Executive Director
On May 9, 2015, the World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) when there were no new cases reported for 42 days since the last confirmed case of a woman was reported in Monrovia.
Being declared free of Ebola with no new case reported does not mean that Liberia is safe as long as our neighbors, Guinea and Sierra Leone are still reporting new infection cases. Therefore, everyone in Liberia has to continue being careful and practice the prevention methods used during the peak of the EVD outbreak such as frequent washing of hands, checking body temperature and staying away from dead bodies and crowded places.
Liberians gathered at the Centennial Pavilion to attend the Official Declaration of the end of Ebola in Liberia by the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 12, 2015
THINK has continued to conduct EVD prevention education and distribute buckets and materials for proper hand washing. The peer- educators have been in our six (6) selected communities; Pagos Island, New Hope, New Kakata, ABC, Sand Town, and Neezoe. Creating awareness and encouraging the community dwellers to keep practicing the Ebola Prevention measures that were put in place by the Ministry of Health and partners. There were 536 community people (273 females and 263 males) from 60 homes each received a bucket with soap and chlorox.
The peer- educators also distributed 42 buckets in 7 schools and 3 Early Childhood Development (ECD) centers as a way of helping kids attending these schools and ECD centers to stay safe from the virus.
The authorities of various schools extended heartfelt gratitude to THINK and her donor partners for thinking about their schools and for the level of education carried out on the prevention of Ebola.
Feature Story
I am a very special survivor of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). I am a six weeks old baby boy. My mother was two months pregnant with me when she got sick and was taken to the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) at ELWA 3 along with two of my siblings. They were all tested and confirmed to have Ebola. Most times women who are pregnant with EVD lose the pregnancy or even die, but my mother and I survived! My father and 53 other members from our family, including my grand parents, uncles, aunties, and cousins, died from July to September 2014.
I am the eighth child of my mother and I have been born an orphan. My mother has been asked to leave the house where we live because she has had Ebola. The landlord is afraid of all of us because my mother and two of my siblings also had Ebola and survived.
I hope to live to be a big and strong boy to help my mother one day. I love all of you that reached out to help Liberia to fight Ebola so that I could survive. I was born on May 12, 2015. My name is Abubakar. THANK YOU for helping Liberia and me!
Thank You!
The Board of Directors, staff, children and communities we serve are very grateful to all of you our donors and partners for your meaningful contributions that have made it possible for us to supply households and schools with hand washing buckets to reduce the time it takes all of the students and teachers to wash before entering the school.
What do you think?
How can you get involved in helping us to reach out to children affected by the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia? Our two neighboring countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone still have new Ebola infections reporting at health facilities. How can you help to improve living conditions and prevent the reoccurrence of Ebola in Liberia?
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