KPADUMA; THE NEGLECTED COMMUNITY- MODELS AGAINST MALARIA TEAM VISITED THE FORGOTTEN

Kpaduma is a settlement dominated by the Gbagyi people located at the southern part of the Asokoro district. Touching sight in Kpaduma is the crowded ramshackle houses in the community that do not have good  toilets and waste disposal facilities. For this reasons, many residents practice open defecation and also indiscriminate waste disposal. This act by the residents made Kpaduma a stinking environment and open to diseases like Malaria parasite caused by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes which are present in the community.

Kpaduma is just a stone throw away from Asokoro which is inhabited by the nation’s high officers and houses the 36 states liaison offices, yet they don’t enjoy the presence of this development around them. Kpaduma was once refer to as a “forgotten community, a decaying city” in the capital.

Models Against Malaria and MajellaCare

MAM team and the residents

MAM team and The residents of Kpaduma

In collaboration with #zeroMalariaStartsWithMe the Model Against Malaria (MAM) team were able to meet the needs of over 250 residents in the community. The #ZeroMalariaStartsWithMe which was launched in Senegal by the National Malaria Control Programme, alongside PATH and Speak Up Africa  in 2014 aims at creating awareness on individual fight against malaria parasite.MAM created a community based move ment to increase community enlightenment and ownership of antimalarials interventions.

In partnership with the Ministry of Health – National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP), MAM was able to conduct instant malaria test, give out antimalarial drugs and also enlighten the residents on the need to keep their environment save from Malaria parasites and how to prevent this dangerous disease.

Models Against Malaria are conscious about maintaining a habitable environment through the eradication of malaria.We at Models Against Africa are passionate about the eradication of Malaria in Africa.

We are Models Against Malaria! Malaria is preventable and treatable. Together, we can #endmalaria and achieve a #HealthForAll!