MKFC CAP project in Ghana – villagers share their positive experiences in preventing malaria

Posted on | November 18, 2009 | No Comments

Earlier this spring, an MKFC team led by Kay Obiri-Mainoo, started working on a development project in the village of Niliyungdo in northern Ghana. Since then, they have worked intensely on a grassroots level, talking and discussing with the villagers, and giving them an important role in identifying and prioritizing community needs.

This has resulted in the production of a Community Action Plan (CAP), a tool for local development which ensures the involvement of the villagers in developing their own community for the better.

So far, important steps towards better health and education have been taken, including raising awareness about the importance of handwashing, giving tips on how to keep the village environment as clean as possible, and providing easy access to clean drinking water. The results have been overwhelmingly successful, and in this video the villagers of Niliyungdo explain why the measures taken to prevent the spread of malaria have been such a positive change.

The CAP project in Ghana demonstrates how very basic solutions can quickly have a huge impact and how the active participation of villagers themselves in transforming their own communities is a key aspect in the success. It’s efficient, effective – and it creates important community networks to share awareness about life-saving know-how.

The next step? To strengthen food security and agriculture by cultivating the right crops, and possibly even going into rabbit breeding!

If you want to know more about previous CAP efforts in Ghana and be inspired by how people make change happen, take a look at this video.

Written by Fanny Johansson

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