By Nelly Cooper | Project Leader
The West Point Intensive Ebola Outreach Project started in the month of September with skeleton staffs who comprises of 1 Executive Director, 2 Volunteer Coordinators and 1 Office Assistant, during this time, the outreachers were recruited and given their protective gears for outreach readiness. The outreachers started work on October 1, 2014, with anti-Ebola awareness and have been active since without any serious constraint. Since the outreaching started, the seven teams had gone into the seven zones of West Point carrying out awareness and giving out the sanitary kits which includes; Water guard, detergents, some tablets (Paracetamol, vitamin C and vitamin B Complex, chlorine or Clorox to every households head in a house.
The outreachers have to take time to explain the danger of Ebola to community dwellers due to the denial by many, some ask questions about how Ebola is being transmitted and how Ebola really got into Liberia, and the teams will take their time to explain on how the first case entered Liberia. Up to now some of the residents don’t really know the signs and symptoms of Ebola and sometimes mistaken these signs to cholera and malaria. Some of the people will argue and deny that Ebola really exist but there are some who accept the fact that Ebola really exist and that it is in Liberia and has actually entered West Point.
The outreachers are doing much when it comes to sensitizing the people on how to keep safe. The WPIEO Project provides lunch for the outreachers’ everyday since the month of October 2014 up to now until the end of the project in December 2014.
The volunteer coordinators recruited the 70 outreachers and are following up on their day to day activities in the field. The VC have to visit the seven zones on a daily basis to ascertain field activities carryout by the outreachers, the distribution of sanitary kits and essential medicines for first aid use. How those items are been distributed and if they are really reaching the targeted beneficiaries in the community.
Protective items provided for the entire project team by West Point Women project are; Rubber boots (1 pair provided for each one on the project), Rain suits ( 2 pairs for each member on the project), T-Shirts ( everyone received 2 each, a white and yellow ) Rubber gloves ( everyone were given a pair of durable rubber gloves for longer used along with white disposable gloves at times when going into the community ), Goggles ( all outreachers and team leaders received a goggle each ), Nose and mouth masks ( the outreachers and team leaders were issue nose and mouth mask to last for the month ), we’ll only be issuing nose and mouth mask along with disposable gloves until the end of project.
Since the outreaching starts in September, the West Point Women Intensive Ebola project purchased the following items for the project used:
This listing also includes things purchased in September, October and the beginning of November 2014.
WPW paid four (4) staffs (an Executive Director, 2 Volunteer Coordinators and an Office Assistant) for 2 months, the months of September and October and November 2014.
Our gratitude to you and our many donors who have given us their support in helping to stop Ebola in West Point and Liberia, we pledge our commitment to doing our best with the confidence impose in us to run this project along with other sisters organizations working with us to help the community of West Point.
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