The Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organisation (ADDRO), is training about 280 volunteers to take up the distribution of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINS) in two
districts in the Upper East Region.
The training which is meant to facilitate ADDRO's malaria free programme at Garu-Tempane and Bawku West districts is being funded by the US
under the President's Malaria Initiative.
The trainees would constitute the first phase of the programme, which has targeted 1000 volunteers to be engaged.
The volunteers will help educate their communities on malaria control.
ADDRO is determined to encourage community members to use LLINS throughout the year by adopting effective and workable strategies to improve the use of the net.
The programme is expected to cover a total of 139,837 people, including 24,967 children under five.
It will also net 6,991 pregnant women and 33,561 women of reproductive age for the next three years.
The main activities under this programme comprised capacity strengthening of the beneficiary communities.
Facilitating the workshop, the Programme Manager, Mr. Moses Nanang observed that in spite of the concerted efforts to reduce malaria, it still
remains the highest medical case at the Out-Patient Departments.
He said the new strategy ADDRO has adopted would influence people to appreciate the need to use LLINs, which is the cheapest and most reliable
means in the prevention of mosquito bites.
Mr Nanang charged the volunteers to encourage pregnant women in their communities to visit health facilities especially the CHPS compounds for anti-natal services.