This is an effort by refugees to continue contributing to the local host communities. We are going to encourage other CBOs to take up the action plans. This is in line with building back our legacy to be developmental partners in the communities we stay in. We shall use video messaging to raise awareness around pertinent development issues that we have outlined. This is a Sneak peek too, into Our September, October, November and December short video prompters:
September:
1. Mental Health related activities
Narrative: “Mental Health in an Unequal World. Mental Health for All. Greater Investment – Greater Access. Everyone, Everywhere.”
2. Ongoing Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-Malaria and Anti-HIV Advocacy activities
Narrative: “AIDS is not over. But it can be. End inequalities. End AIDS.”
October:
1. Elimination of Poverty themes
Narrative: “Address poverty, its causes, and consequences. Poverty is not only a lack of financial resources, but it also means a lack of opportunities.”
2. Draw attention to the girl children growth and development
Narrative: “Education is a right for a girl child because education, health and nutrition make a better human.”
3. Draw attention to risk reduction initiatives
Narrative: “A risk reduction plan means that we need to do prevention and mitigation; we have to have a disaster preparedness plan; we have to ensure disaster response; and we must address disaster rehabilitation and recovery.”
4. Ongoing Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-Malaria and Anti-HIV Advocacy
Narrative: “HIV/TB/Malaria/COVID-19 prevention and treatment call for the elimination of stigma and discrimination.”
November:
1. Elimination of violence against women
Narrative: “This world can be peaceful: Prevent and denounce all forms of violence.”
2. Draw attention to child growth and development
Narrative: “Children grow well when they are allowed to fulfill their fullest potential through social, emotional, physical, cognitive and language opportunities. Facilitate children’s development.”
3. Draw attention to diabetes care and prevention
Narrative: “Seek regular check and engage in regular physical activity. Diabetes can be prevented and managed.”
4. Ongoing Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-Malaria and Anti-HIV Advocacy
Narrative: “With COVID-19’s impact, there is risk AIDS becomes a resurgent pandemic. While COVID-19 has dominated the world’s attention, AIDS remains a global health emergency. We have the tools to reverse this trend.”
December:
1. World AIDS Day
Narrative: “The World AIDS Day is the perfect time for us to raise the much-needed awareness about HIV.”
2. Universal Health Coverage Strategy
Narrative: “Health for all: protect everyone. Build safer and robust health systems. People have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.”
3. Human rights activism
Narrative: “When we talk of human rights, we mean the economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights because these make life more meaningful.”
4. Ongoing Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-Malaria and Anti-HIV Advocacy
Narrative: “A never-ending HIV pandemic is not our fate. We have the tools to end AIDS/TB/Malaria as public health threats by 2030.”
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