COVID-19 Rwanda Project #48126

Support Community Health Workers in Rural Area

by RWANDAN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION

Project Report | Feb 2, 2024
Regular Training of CHWs

By UWIZEYIMANA JEAN DAMASCENE | Project Leader

Dear Patrons,

Thank you very much for the valuable support to Rwandan Youth Development and Voluntary Organization, the project that support community health workers in Rwanda. It a great honor to have you!

I am happy to share with you that our organization continue to conduct regular training and workshop on Infectious diseases prevention and control , those training and workshop target150 community health workers in Rulindo district/Burega sector. We do conduct Practical sessions and similation exercises.

Dear Patron, In Rwanda, Community Health Workers (CHW) are the first health contact for patients, children, pregnant woman, people with chronic diseases etc. Having well trained community health workers is definately to improve the quality of care.

In fact, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have highlighted different gaps in infectious diseases prevention and control as well as lack of basic sanitation materials supplies and personal protective equipment for CHWs.

If CHWs are not protected and well skilled, they are at the highest risk of contracting any infectious diseases and spread it to the rest of the community, leading to catastrophic outcomes.

To keep our work going as planned, we request you to donate generously for our project so that we can keep working and achieve our goals. Your support will continue to support this project, and we can not achieved our goals without your support.

Kind regards

Rwaydavo president

Jean Damascene Uwizeyimana

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Oct 4, 2023
Global Handwashing Day 2023

By Jean Damascene Uwizeyimana | Project Leader

Dear Patrons,

October 15 is Global Handwashing Day, a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. The hand washing with soap showed efficacy in the prevention of infectious diseases as well as COVID-19 that invided the whole world recently. The Global health threats posed by infectious diseases: RWAYDAVO is striving to combat the health crisis by generating and sharing knowledge, and practical expertise and producing data on infectious diseases in order to develop new tools and interventions. Community health workers are the key players in the community, especially in preventing and responding to global health threats posed by infectious diseases. This year, we are planning to celebrate Global hand washing day on 5^th November 2023. Together with primary school students and community health workers we will carry out the event. The event will be attended more than 2000 people including students and community health workers.

During the Global handwashing day event, we will cover different topics that are common in health care and public health practice settings, infection control includes various measures that prevent and contain the spread of infectious disease.

These topics are the following:

Hand Washing
Infection control standards, contact, droplet, and airborne precautions
Procedures for decontamination of persons and disinfection of equipment and the environment
Quarantine of contacts (if necessary)
Prophylaxis of exposed individuals
Control of the vectors of infection

To do this we need 1000 USD,

To achieve this, we request you to donate generously to our project so that we can keep working and achieve our goals. You could also consider doing a monthly recurring donation for our project, which will help us with our ongoing work.

We thank you for everything that you have done for our project, and we look forward to your continued support.

Thanks and Best Regards.

Jean Damascene Uwizeyimana

RWAYDAVO President

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Jun 6, 2023
Training on Long COVID-19

By Jean Damascene Uwizeyimana | Project Leader

Dear Patrons,

We are pleased to thank you very much for all the support that you have provided so far for our Support Community Health Workers in Rural Areas project.

We are so excited to share with you that we are currently organizing a workshop on Long Covid-19.

If some one has recovered from COVID-19 but are still experiencing certain symptoms you could have post COVID-19 condition or "long COVID"

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are increasingly being utilized to alleviate the shortage of human resources for health, particularly in the delivery of interventions for primary health care. By serving as intermediaries between the community and the formal health system, CHWs are uniquely placed to serve resource-poor settings. CHW systems have been found to be effective in implementing interventions to prevent infectious diseases, malaria prevention, health education, breastfeeding promotion, essential newborn care, and psychosocial support. As community health workers are the first contact with sick people, especially at the village level, it is very urgent for them to have enough skills in infection control and prevention, they need to have skills in infection prevention and control practices, surveillance, and contact tracing, safe and dignified burials, and social mobilization. It is important that community health workers should have skills on Long covid so that, early

treatment and follow-up can be offered for patients who recovered from COVID-19.

This will be a one-day workshop in order to enhance the level of management ( where to transfer patients, symptoms of long COVID-19, etc). We will conduct 4 workshops and 400 Community health workers trained will serve as peer educators as they will go back to their villages and teach others.

To be able to carry out the planned activities, we need immediate funds of 800 USD for the 4 workshops. We request you to donate generously to our project so that we can keep working and achieve our goals.

We thank you for everything that you have done for our project, and we look forward to your continued support.

Thanks & Best Regards.

Jean Damascene UWIZEYIMANA

RWAYDAVO President

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