EndMalaria campaign

In partnership with various local initiatives, I collaborated with EndMalaria team to mobilize a medical team to conduct rapid diagnostic tests for malaria and prescribe malaria drugs for malaria positive children and adults in six villages in Taraba state Nigeria. The team will be treated and still is treating more than three thousand malaria cases using Para checks for blood samples and Arthemether+Lumefantrine tablets, a guaranteed malaria treatment. Treatment started from age one and above along sideline an awareness campaign and also a distribution of mosquito treated nets for each malaria case in these villages where children mortality rate has been in the increase due to malaria. This project also involved an environmental sanitation and sensitization campaign in the villages to show the practical aspect of avoiding mosquitoes and their breeding areas. The project was composed of four overarching objectives: • To treat 3000 malaria cases in six villages among children under the age of five and pregnant women in Ardo kola local government are of Taraba state, Nigeria. • To encourage the use of mosquito nets among children under the age of five and pregnant women in Ardo kola local government are of Taraba state, Nigeria. • To create awareness and provide malaria education in the intervention villages in Ardo kola local government are of Taraba state, Nigeria. • To determine the incidence/prevalence of malaria cases in the intervention villages.

MY ROLE

I worked as a social media consultant for this Nigerian team, I raised people's awareness through social media.I used different platforms to promote the campaign. I started out by creating a facebook page, designing a logo, designing tshirts, and publishing a series of posters pertaining the issue so as to get people's attention as it helped us out to raise more than $1000.