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REPORT ON SELL COVID-19 AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

5/30/2020

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The SELL Resource Team continued with the Covid-19 awareness raising campaign by reaching out to other communities in its catchment areas. Thanks to the support from our Partners, Friends of Africa (FOA) and benefactors, Saint Patrick’s Missionary Society (SPMS), we have been able to reach some communities undertaking several activities on Covid-19 awareness and education with further support from our selfless volunteers who have shown a great sense of civic responsibility in caring for their own people in the wake of this pandemic.
In Garu, our Resource Team member, Joshua Anambe gathered some volunteers in his home area on the 22nd of April, 2020 and responded to the need to help raise the awareness on COVID-19. Together they reached to the people in the markets and lorry parks with placards containing messages and pictures on safety precautions on the Corona Virus Pandemic.


On 3rd May 2020, our volunteers in Damongo community in the Savanna Region came out in their numbers stood at various Junctions and strategic positions in the markets holding placards with messages on COVID-19 safety precautions and education while wearing their nose masks for the awareness campaign. This followed a virtual planning meeting the Resource Team had with the youth chaplain of the diocese, Rev. Fr. Gordon.  in the township of Damongo.
On the 11th and 12th of May 2020, the Team of volunteers in Bunkpurugu had their awareness campaign in two places, Nakpanduri and Bunkpurugu communities. They stepped up the awareness and education on COVID-19 by using the public address system to read out the safety precautionary measures on the placards and  educated the people in the market and lorry stations on the need to wash their hands regularly, wear nose mask,  stay away from crowded places and stay at home as necessary as possible to help contain the spread of the virus.
In two communities of Kongo and Pelungu, a volunteer, Moses Nablebna brought together some friends and health workers in the two communities and with support from us the SELL Resource Team, they went out on the 13th and 15th of May, 2020 to the markets on market days of the two communities to engage the community people on the need to practice the safety precautionary measures put out.
On 17th May 17, 2020, three volunteers from three communities of Bongo, Zuarungu and Bolgatanga came together with some young adults from their communities to engage the local community members who have travelled to Bolgatanga for the market day on the need for physical distancing among traders and patrons, wearing of nose masks, regular washing of hands with soap under running water. This they did holding placards and standing at strategic places in the markets and using public address systems to speak to the local people in their local language on the need for the safety measures.


With the awareness campaign, education, and word on street on COVID-19 the SELL Programme Ghana, with our selfless and committed volunteers and support from our partners have reached nine (9) communities across four (4) regions in the northern part of Ghana. A lot of learnings and revelations came through from the experience of our volunteers who were involved in the exercise and have been summarized below are some of their findings:
  • A good number of people do not have adequate information about the virus and part of this is because most of the information has been in English thereby excluding a good number of others.


  • Most markets do not have veronica buckets (A movable hand washing basin with a tap) available in the market for people to wash their hands.




  • It was disheartening to find that some people show attitude of indifference towards the virus. They don’t observe the safety precautions. There is no such thing as social and physical distancing. Most aspects of the markets are crowded. It was also saddening to observe that people are not observing the safety precaution of “Stay at home.”


  • Some said that they genuinely cannot afford nose masks and sanitizers and that they were not in a position to stay at home because of their financial situation.
As part of measures to reach the wider communities we work in and to respond to some of the findings from our awareness and education campaign, the SELL Resource Team worked together with some of our volunteers to translate the safety precautionary measures put out by the World Health Organization (WHO) in their local languages into audio jingles that were aired on the various local radio stations and other platforms.
The radio awareness was done to ensure that local community people will understand the safety precautionary measures in their local language and the need to adhere to them.
For further information and photographs pertaining to efforts made by the SELL Resource Team towards the fight against Covid-19, please keep an eye on our website www.sellprogrammeghana.org .You can also follow us on all our social media platforms at SELL Programme Ghana for regular updates as well.
We on the SELL Resource Team, our community volunteers, partners and benefactors will continue to support and be part of the effort by humanity to reduce the spread of the Corona Virus disease and its eventual eradication.
The SELL Programme and our beneficiaries are grateful to our partners Friends of Africa (FOA) as well as other benefactors and all who are supporting us to fight this pandemic at the local community level.
We are planning on having a second phase of the awareness creation and hopefully responding to some of the findings gathered from the first phase. We know this will require financial support and we are hopeful that our partners and individuals of goodwill with means will stay with us and support us in this all-important fight against Covid-19.
From all of us here on the SELL Resource Team is our wish that you stay safe and protect yourself and others in these difficult moments.
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SELL PROGRAMME GHANA COVID-19 AWARENESS RAISING

4/26/2020

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We are in very unusual times with the outbreak of the Corona Virus. In these times as a team, we have decided to channel all our efforts towards raising awareness in communities where we work in the Northern Sector and we would like to share some updates with you.


TAMALE ZONE – NORTHERN REGION
Our Tamale team of volunteers embarked on COVID-19 awareness project within the Tamale Metropolis. The exercise took place on the 4th of April,2020. The team also partnered volunteers from other local organizations in the one-day event.
The first phase of the SELL GHANA COVID-19 awareness project sought to create awareness on the pandemic in our communities as well as taking action by providing extra hand washing stands at strategic points in the highly populated areas (e.g. markets, lorry stations etc.). With Tamale as the pilot phase.
A team of 20 young adults from the SHARING EDUCATION AND LEARNING FOR LIFE PROGRAMME GHANA and some youth from Make a Difference Ghana, Yumzaa Foundation and Zak Fashion Center embarked on holding placards reemphasizing the protocols advised by World Health Organisation, Ministry of Health and Health Professionals.  Volunteers were all given free nose masks and hand gloves for their protection. The nose masks were locally produced with the traditional fabric.
Program started at 7:30am and placards were held by volunteers at traffic lights and junctions with high human population. This was to expose the placard information to more people as the passed by and went about get their groceries in the market.
The program also had Sagani TV, Northern Television, Harmattangh, TamaleOnline.net and Campus360 as media partners. Reports on the event was shared via their various media platforms (Check appendix)
The following targets were reached;
  • Community attention and awareness on COVID-19
  • Extra hand washing stands in the market and bus stations.
A general evaluation from the team and the positive feedback on all media platforms shared reaffirms the effectiveness of the SELL GHANA COVID-19 Tamale Project.
APPENDIX - Media coverage
https://web.facebook.com/saganitv/videos/243896790138823/ (Local TV evening News; April 06, 2020)
https://web.facebook.com/ntvghanaone/  (Local TV evening news; April 06,2020)
https://www.harmattangh.com/  (Ghanaian online news portal)    
https://campusweb360.blogspot.com/2020/04/sell-ghana-covid-19-word-on-street.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR1c3EiZYsDETK5jmhT_EM5IQ06ipcqeTj9qfC7NHvHTivGfGn3-IfT8GWE
(Youth based News portal)


NAVRONGO/BOLGATANGA – UPPER EAST ZONE
Following the success of the COVID-19 WOS Awareness in Tamale, our team of volunteers in the Navrongo/Bolgatanga Zone on the 12th of April, 2020, organized awareness raising in Navrongo. SELL provided the youth with placards, hand washing barrels known as veronica buckets, gloves, tissues, liquid soap, disinfectant, and others for the exercise. A total of 32 young adults took part in the exercise. The group comprised of SELL Volunteers, Youth from Navrongo Basilica and Sound Mind. The volunteers worked in pairs, stood at vantage points in the town with their placard. The placards carried pertinent information about the COVID-19 Pandemic and the preventive protocols given by WHO. The Veronica buckets were placed at strategic locations for hand washing purpose (see veronica bucket in photos). Health Workers among the volunteers stood at different points in the market and demonstrated how to wash hands properly and asking one after the other a few women to try washing their hands with the running water from the veronica buckets. The awareness raising went on for an hour and a half.
A media house in Navrongo also provided the volunteers with a public address system to help raise the awareness whiles keeping the social distance required. This helped the team to explain more in Kassem which is the local dialect of the people of Navrongo and its environs. Some passers-by who read the inscriptions stopped to ask questions which all were addressed. After an hour and half the Street Exercise was ended and the volunteers had some time with the media answering question and raising awareness which were captured for their reportage.
The SELL Programme, Ghana COVID-19 Street Awareness Campaign was successful and we hope our follow up awareness raising in these areas will reinforce the preventive measures and people in the communities will adhere to it.
Our next communities are the Upper West/Wa Zone and Garu, another Community in the Upper East/Navrongo-Bolga Zone.
Let’s Continue to keep safe. We are in this together.
Keep Safe, Save a Live.
Sending you love, light and positive vibes wherever you are.
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Information on Trainings and workshops for Blog Update

11/27/2019

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The information contained in this update covers the trainings and workshops undertaken by the SELL Resource Team and the Volunteers of the programme from September to November, 2019. This summarised update points out the key activities undertaken within the time frame stated above.

The Resource Team resumed work on the 2nd of September following a month-long annual leave in August. There were two major trainings in September – one in Wa zone and the other in Tamale. The Volunteers in Wa Zone, the Upper West Region of Ghana, were trained in the Leadership Unit of the programme on the second weekend of the month. This was their second training since they were trained in the Self Awareness unit in January this year. The Volunteers were given additional capacity building and taken through the various sessions of the Leadership Unit. It was a great experience to encounter the Volunteers who are committing themselves to work for their communities.
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The Team travelled to Tamale on the final weekend of September for the training in the Justice Unit of the programme. This was their final training in the six units of the programme. The volunteers came with enthusiasm to participate and to celebrate their togetherness for three years as trainees of the programme. They were taken through capacity building skills in areas such as Teams and relationship building and input on basic counselling skills. Having gone through all the units, the volunteers in the Tamale zone are now elicitive enough to use the materials and the skills they have acquired through the programme to help themselves and their communities in various ways and also to contribute to the realisation of the Vision of the SELL Programme which is to have communities where people coexist in harmony and peace with one another, the earth and her life forms.

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On the second weekend of October there was a training in the Self Awareness Unit in Damongo Zone at the Unity Centre in Damongo. It was the first training in that zone since the selection of volunteers workshop earlier in April this year. A total of 19 young adults were trained as Facilitators of the programme. The training started on Wednesday October 9 and ended on Sunday October 13. The Catholic Bishop of the Damongo diocese came in on the Saturday to encourage the trainees and the Resource team for the great work. Bishop Peter Paul expressed his gratitude to the team and entreated the volunteers to maintain their commitment to the programme for the good of themselves and for the liberation of their fellow young people in their various communities. The Resource team also thanked the bishop for inviting the programme into his diocese and for the great support he and the youth chaplain, Fr Gordon, offered them and the young people in training.

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Joshua was at University for Development Studies (UDS) in Navrongo for a workshop on the Wisdom of Traditions Unit. Four volunteers in the Navrongo area were present to Facilitate the workshop. 13 students participated in the workshop including 2 Muslim ladies. Mr Abagali Sampson, a lecturer, who has always made time for SELL programmes in the school was present again this time and shared how valuable the programme is to him and the students who have participated in the workshops so far. It was a great experience to facilitate the students to talk about their traditions, their sexual health and the need to take proper care of the environment. It is our hope that the Volunteers that Facilitated the workshop that weekend will always be contacted by the school to conduct workshops for them.
There were three other workshops in the Tamale zone on the Justice unit. Three of the Mentors were present in each of the communities to support the Facilitators. The communities in which the workshops were conducted are Savelugu, Holy Cross and Saints Peter and Paul. The feedback from the mentors to the Resource Team about the success of the workshops was very positive. The Team appreciates the great work the volunteers are doing.
In January this year the Team had an invitation from the St. Victor’s Seminary in Tamale to conduct workshop for the seminarians. Following that invitation, the workshop was held from the 22nd to the 24th of October in the St. Victors Major Seminary. 27 participated in the sessions which covered three units of the programme – Self Awareness, Leadership and Wisdom of Traditions. It was a great experience to work with these young people who will soon be working with the youth as leaders in the church. The Seminary leadership and the students who participated in the workshop expressed the appreciation for the opportunity and invited the team to come back next year for another workshop. The Resource team appreciates the Seminary leadership and the students who participated for all the great work and is looking forward to having another encounter with them in 2020.

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The final training of this year was in the Justice Unit. The Volunteers in the Navrongo-Bolgatanga zone had their final training from the 7th to the 10th of November at Pusu Namongo at the Farmer Training Centre in the Upper East region of Ghana. The volunteers came in their numbers to climax the training session. They were taken through all the sessions in the Justice unit and the capacity building materials as mentioned in the Tamale zone training. They had a great social night gathering on the Saturday to celebrate their time together for three years.
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The Resource Team appreciates the volunteers for all the great work they are doing in the field with the programme and encourages them to continue with it so as to benefit many young people. The benefactors whose immeasurable generosity has kept the programme running are deeply appreciated by the Resource Team. The Presentation Brothers and all other Stakeholders of the programme are also greatly appreciated for all the great support they continue to offer the team
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New SELL Video

7/28/2019

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UPDATES FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, 2019

7/19/2019

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Continuing with the mentoring and monitoring workshops in the second half of the calendar year, Fr. Leo travelled to Tumu in the Upper East region of Ghana. He was there to mentor the facilitators as they facilitated for the first time since their training in the Self Awareness unit of the programme. The facilitators did their best in the organisation and presentation as reported by Fr. Leo. They were given feedback on how to improve on their performance. Fr Leo encouraged them to try to organise another workshop in another community before the next training in September.
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Hagar and John Mark were at Tamale on the second weekend of the month for mentoring and monitoring workshops at Nyankpala and Lamashegu communities respectively. These workshops were on the Wisdom of Traditions unit. Joshua was also at Chiana community in the Navrongo-Bolgatanga zone for a workshop and there was another workshop at Navrongo community in the same zone and all these workshops were on the Wisdom of Traditions unit. It was a busy and all the same successful weekend.

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On the 12th of June Fr Leo left for his annual leave. Joshua, Jeremiah, Hagar and John Mark now hold the fort until the end of July when the Resource Room will be closed as all team members observe their annual leave in the month of August.
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There was a mentoring workshop on the Wisdom of Traditions unit at Kumbungu community in the Tamale zone. Charles, one of the trained mentors, was there to mentor the team of facilitators. He reported to the resource team that the facilitators did very well. This was the final workshop on the Wisdom of traditions Unit in the Tamale zone. The facilitators in that zone are now ready for the final training session which is on the Justice unit in September this year.

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On the final weekend the team was in Wa zone for the final mentoring sessions on the Self Awareness unit. Hagar and John Mark were in Wa township to mentor the team there. Jeremiah and Joshua were at Kaleo community. Both teams of facilitators did their as they facilitated for the first time since their training in January this year. They were given feedback on how to improve on their presentations and especially on the organisation of the workshops. There were also two workshops in the Navrongo-Bolgatanga zone, all on the Wisdom of Traditions unit. The communities where these workshops were held are Zuarungu and Binduri communities. Generally, the weekend was successful and so was the entire month.

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The Resource Team is grateful as always to all who continue to support this movement in various and tremendous ways. We pray their efforts be replenished and their good intentions granted.


By: 
Joshua Anambe
For SELL Resource Team
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