It's often said that many residents of remote Manitoba reserves live in Third World conditions, lacking basic services like indoor plumbing and clean drinking water.
Now, researchers from the University of Manitoba are testing that theory, comparing the tiny, impoverished Caribbean island of Dominica with two northern Manitoba First Nations.
Brenda Elias, a professor of community health, suspects Dominica is taking the issue of running water more seriously than Canada, even though Canada is the far wealthier, more technologically advanced nation.
... Over the summer [2010], Elias and her team completed their field work in Dominica, where they surveyed roughly half of the 625 homes in eight hamlets where the indigenous Kalinago people live.
Conditions were disturbingly similar to what exists in 1,400 remote Manitoba First Nations homes. Most homes...communal water taps were located a hike from many homes, and water quality was often unreliable. ...
The survey found that...dengue fever is beginning to be a problem like never before.
(Source: http://tinyurl.com/winnipegpress)
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The support we can offer you, Ajmal, is strictly technical. Educational materials for an Anti-Dengue Campaign such as what you propose must be designed to address the specific conditions you are exposed to.
The best we can do is publish some of the materials we have in our archives, but you would have to extract the information that is useful to you and make your own.
Dear Sir,
Anti-Dengue Campaign
We the Serendib Foundation for Relief and Development (SFRD) is a non governmental organization. We work in various fields of Humanitarian Tasks among the affected people who are suffering poverty, unemployment, and environmental diseases.
At this time in our country, there are hundreds of people identified as dengue patients. Some of them have died too. So we have prepared a work plan for preventing dengue. We have identified the places which are most affected by dengue.
According to a Sri Lankan health ministry statement, 210 patients have died from dengue.
We kindly request your support for our dengue campaign in the form of Posters (Dengue Awareness), Hand Bills, Leaflets, Banners, Books.
Thanking You.
H Ajmal
Executive Secretary,
Serendib Relief – SFRD
11, Spill Road,
Puttalam – 61300
Sri Lanka.
Could you describe what your precise plans are regarding Dengue? I could then advise you in developing your Dengue Awareness programme. However, you would have to produce posters and other materials that would address the particular circumstances where you live – the extent of the Dengue problem and the target group. In other words, all posters are not useful everywhere.
Dear Sir,
We are arranging Dengue promotions. Please send posters.
Thank you