REAP implements a grant to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Under the leadership of Isabel Taswell, a REAP volunteer and a teacher at Bank Street School for Children, and Jean Paulin Mutatsineza, REAP’s country director, REAP has been designated the grant implementer for our project, Kalendari Ineza.  

The grant is from the US Department’s Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund Rapid Response program and features a public health campaign to raise the community’s awareness of COVID-19, curb its spread, and fortify community resiliency in the face of extreme poverty. 

The grant officially opened on October 7, 2020 with a COVID-19 training to 56 representatives of the Musha Community in all areas (government officials, teachers from the local public school, business leaders, self-help group leaders, health center nurses, girl leaders, and community board members).

As an outcome of the training, community members will produce calendars with public health messages illustrated  by community children. Calendars will then be distributed to homes and public venues in Musha. 

Afterwards, Girl Scouts will perform monthly sketches in the community and at the Duha Complex School about COVID-19 prevention. Concurrently, designated self-help groups will conduct home visits to 100 of the most at-risk families to practice the calendar messages. Under the guidance of trained self-help group leaders and government leaders, families will then demonstrate the practice of the messages at weekly community meetings to consolidate sustainability.

BRAVE, THE HEAD OF MUSHA HEALTH CENTER LEADING A TRAINING ON COVID-19

MEDIATRICE, A NURSE AT MUSHA HEALTH CENTER DEMONSTRATING PROPER HAND WASHING

A COMMUNITY MEMBER ASKING A QUESTION DURING THE TRAINING

A COMMUNITY MEMBER WRITING DOWN A CALENDAR MESSAGE

SMALL GROUPS BRAINSTORMING CALENDAR MESSAGES