By our Taraba correspondent
As part of efforts to tackle community transmission of the novel Corona Virus in Taraba State, the State Primary Health Development Agency (TSPHCDA) in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have begun strengthening community structures to create more awareness and spread useful information in wards across the state.
Both organisations embarked on training for 80 town announcers drawn from 168 ward development committees (WDCs) across the state, in order to create more awareness on socially appropriate safety practices during the Covid-19 pandemic, need to increase hand-washing practice, avoid crowded places and ensure proper use of face masks through key messaging and community education.
The WDCs’ training, on the other hand, centred on empowering community governance structures with the right information to dialogue with and educate their communities appropriately.
The Executive Secretary, TSPHCDA, Alhaji Aminu Hassan Jauro said the trainings would help reduce the volume of rumour, myth, socio-cultural bias and other non-compliant practices.
Jauro called on other partners to borrow a leaf from the UNICEF and put smiles on the faces of women and children and assured that the agency would not refrain from playing its part in encouraging international organisations to continue to do more grassroots’ work in the state.
He urged the town announcers and the WDCs to take advantage of the knowledge acquired from the training to affect their communities positively by working round the clock to ensure that no case of the virus is recorded.
