Moving Mountains to Touch Lives by Eradicating Guinea Worm Disease in Ghana and South Sudan
Jun 11, 2015
Moving Mountains to Touch Lives by EradicatingGuinea Worm Disease in Ghana and South Sudan
Drill Rig Hits Water in Village
Long Wait for Water is Over!
Inspired by Being with the Kids
Challenging Trips to Villages!
“You Got to Love Me to Come This Far” in Do Meabra!
Rotarians are Moving Mountains to Touch Lives!• Teach Service
• Set Example
• Inspire
• Vision
• Partners
• Passionate
• Action
Watertown, NY Rotary’s Gift of Banner to New Ghana Club
It All Started with a Well…
Tamale Rotarians Key to Team• Polio Work Built Reputation• Each Humanitarian Grant Fit into Next• Set Goals of Guinea Worm Eradication by
Providing Clean Water• Inspired by Joe Mumuni & René Dogbe• Built Friendships & Goodwill• Willing to Use Dynamite
Guinea Worm Parasitestaken from Kids in Ghana
Unsafe Water Harbor Diseases
Get Water to 4,136 Sick People was Overwhelming in 2006
Vision & Team Came TogetherWatertown, NY Rotary Clubs
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada Rotary Club
Rocky Mount, VA USA Club
Old Montréal Club in Québec, Canada
Lebanon, New Hampshire RC
Tamale Club in Ghana
DedicatedRotarians
Vision
Rotary Wells Are Highly Desired
Repair Wells & Boreholes
Many People Worked as Team
Why Not End Disease in World?
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
2,733
1,692
1,028
484113
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Number of People with Guinea WormBy Year
Ghana South Sudan
Guinea Worm Cases By Year
Country 2011 2012 2013 2014
South Sudan 1,030 521 1133
Chad 10 10 14 3
Mali 12 7 11 0
Ethiopia 8 4 70
Sudan 0 0 3 0
Ghana 0 0 0 0
Eastern Equatoria is target state in South Sudan. Year-to-date is through March 2014.
Kids Are Healthy and Smiling…
Before: In Clinic
After: In School
“Can You Help with Neglected Disease called Buruli Ulcer?”
Learning about Buruli Ulcer
• Building New Team • Easier to Cure if Detected Early• Uncertain Cause: Water or Soil• Neglected Tropical Flesh Eating Disease• Treated with Two Antibiotics Early On• May Have to Amputate Arm or Leg• Want to Raise Awareness
What Have We Done Lately?
• Surveillance to Find People Early• Educated Community about Diseases• Trained 123 Health Professionals• Trained 163 Community Health
Worker Volunteers• Transformed Lives of People with Right
Care and Prevention of Disability• Provide water to 54,255 people
We are Touching Anita’s Life
Before
After
Serwaa Before & After Antibiotic Treatment and First Skin Graft
Dream Big Next Five Years• Use Your Imagination for the Possible• End Polio & Guinea Worm from World!• Lead Your District to Dream Big!• Hope Transforms and Enables• Dreams Thrive Best with Teamwork• Next Disease is Buruli Ulcer• Let’s Do It Together!
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