By George Obua | Project Leader
"COVID-19 as the world's most dangerous threat" according to UNICEF (2020); in education sector alone, in the view of the report: about 1.53 billion learners are out of school and 184 country-wide schools are closed, impacting 87.6% of the world's total enrolled learners; Kole Intellectual Forum, that is, promoting quality, sustainable and potential education in Uganda; has modified its action to include preventing the pandemic by promoting an hygiene at home, schools and in the hospitals.
Although armed conflict has been the waste global catastrophe; with the declaration of COVID-19 by WHO on the 11th March 2020, the pandemic has not just been a public health crisis; but rather, a crisis that was expected to touch every sector; and by 24/5/2020 close to about 343,983 people globally have already lost their lives to the scourge according to COVID-19 Worldometer (2020). This describes the magnitude to which this pandemic needs to be prevented from spreading to where it can be controlled.
Given that: the spread of the virus is scaling down globally, but on the other hand raising in Uganda; with the advice from World Health Organization that: Handwashing remains the No. 1 tip for preventing the spread of COVID-19; Kole Intellectual Forum is therefore contented that, to promote quality, sustainable and potential education in Northern Uganda, Kole district; the organization would like to report to you that: it has modified its activities to include advocating for the prevention of COVID-19 by providing homes, schools and Hospitals with liquid soap and face masks.
If we can protect the lives of our communities from this dangerous threat; our children at schools will be able to perform well. Hence, globally, we will recovery from the aftermath threat of this virus.
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