LemonAid Fund Resiliency Activities During Crisis: From Ebola to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sierra Leone and West Africa continue on the road to recovery/resiliency and building back better. LemonAid Fund continues to walk side by side using our successful community- based approach with our Network Organizations. Whether it was Ebola or now Covid-19 our approach works.
Prevention and Recovery/Resiliency
Prevention and Recovery/Resiliency is a multi-pronged strategy from the community members use of the wash and sanitation material at the Makoba Health Center to agriculture projects with nutritional food grown by Rural Youth Development Organization (RYDO) in Bumpe to getting and keeping children in schools such as Dele Peddle Preparatory School all hold benefits. Some of the key areas LemonAid Fund highlights for prevention and recovery/resiliency follow.
Wash and Sanitation
Emphasis hand washing practices, use of clean water and soap while keeping toilets clean is just good practice. Making it into a habit can help prevent all kinds of communicable diseases.
Prevention and Recovery/Resiliency is a multi-pronged strategy from the community members use of the wash and sanitation material at the Makoba Health Center to agriculture projects with nutritional food grown by Rural Youth Development Organization (RYDO) in Bumpe to getting and keeping children in schools such as Dele Peddle Preparatory School all hold benefits. Some of the key areas LemonAid Fund highlights for prevention and recovery/resiliency follow.
Wash and Sanitation
Emphasis hand washing practices, use of clean water and soap while keeping toilets clean is just good practice. Making it into a habit can help prevent all kinds of communicable diseases.
 Students Getting Home Education Assignments During Ebola Crisis
Education
Students from over six LemonAid Fund Schools in our Network Summoning their best selves. LemonAid Fund supports education through scholarships and infrastructure help in order to ensure more children have access to quality education. During the days of Ebola the teen-age pregnancy rate increased. We hope the lockdowns for the Covid-19 virus does not produce the same results. Getting back to school is one piece of prevention as well as building resiliency in both boys and girls. |
Building Schools Builds a Nation
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Ebola Survivors working with RYDO in Bawomahun Village receive seed and farm implementations from LemonAid Fund to restart their agriculture businesses
Food and nutrition are critical to building the immunity of the body, to nourish the brain and to survive. In the recovery period and beyond LemonAid Fund is supporting bringing back dignity and livelihoods to survivors of the Ebola Outbreak along with other community members. We are building back lives with livelihoods of agriculture and providing psychosocial support.
Psychosocial Support is a hallmark of LemonAid Fund's work over the 20 years that CEO Dr. Nancy Peddle has worked in Sierra Leone and globally. During a crisis it isn't always what you do that makes a difference but HOW you do it. It is the how that can support people's resiliency and help them on the road to recovery or plunge them deeper into despair. LemonAid Fund adapted its Psychosocial Manual to address the Ebola needs and led a workshop to train 25 Women Advocates in psychosocial principles and practices that they in turn used with their constituencies spreading the word to over 2,500 people. We continue to implement trainings in support of psychosocial functioning for stronger wellbeing (addresses crisis's such as the mudslide and fire as well as violence due to political differences) in Sierra Leone and globally. Social Work Sierra Leone have taken the lead in combining our FGA psychosocial approach and Covid-19 awareness.
Psychosocial Support is a hallmark of LemonAid Fund's work over the 20 years that CEO Dr. Nancy Peddle has worked in Sierra Leone and globally. During a crisis it isn't always what you do that makes a difference but HOW you do it. It is the how that can support people's resiliency and help them on the road to recovery or plunge them deeper into despair. LemonAid Fund adapted its Psychosocial Manual to address the Ebola needs and led a workshop to train 25 Women Advocates in psychosocial principles and practices that they in turn used with their constituencies spreading the word to over 2,500 people. We continue to implement trainings in support of psychosocial functioning for stronger wellbeing (addresses crisis's such as the mudslide and fire as well as violence due to political differences) in Sierra Leone and globally. Social Work Sierra Leone have taken the lead in combining our FGA psychosocial approach and Covid-19 awareness.
Psychosocial Team at the Core of Recovery/Resiliency and Decreasing Conflict Risk
Forgiveness, Gratitude and Appreciation can be adapted for different cultures and different issues such as violence and disease.
Ramatu's Change During the Psychosocial Training
There was a time in our village when one women was ill. She told us that she has no Ebola. She went to the hospital and the doctor told her that she has no Ebola so people went and visit her. After sometimes she die and all those who visit her house die also. That was a painful situation in our village. We are all uncomfortable because of these false story that the women told us. It was really painful because most important peoples die.
… The way I was feeling the first time and now, everything has change. My stress has gone through the teaching and the games we play and made me happy these times. I am now joyful in everything I do and think positive things for myself and others. I have forgiven this woman for what she has done in our village. Ramatu, Participant LemonAid Fund WRESL Psychosocial FGA Training 2015
Ramatu's Change During the Psychosocial Training
There was a time in our village when one women was ill. She told us that she has no Ebola. She went to the hospital and the doctor told her that she has no Ebola so people went and visit her. After sometimes she die and all those who visit her house die also. That was a painful situation in our village. We are all uncomfortable because of these false story that the women told us. It was really painful because most important peoples die.
… The way I was feeling the first time and now, everything has change. My stress has gone through the teaching and the games we play and made me happy these times. I am now joyful in everything I do and think positive things for myself and others. I have forgiven this woman for what she has done in our village. Ramatu, Participant LemonAid Fund WRESL Psychosocial FGA Training 2015
Dr. Nancy Peddle at the UN Ebola Recovery Conference with the Head of the Global Fund Africa
UN Ebola Recovery Conference 2015
LemonAid Fund was invited to attend the UN Ebola Recovery Conference in response to the support LemonAid Fund gave to Sierra Leone during the Ebola Outbreak. In response to the invitation, LemonAid Fund worked with Trocaire and other INGO's in Sierra Leone to develop a paper: Prioritizing Psychosocial Support, for the conference. Dr. Nancy Peddle and the LemonAid Fund continue its 20 year commit to bringing support to Sierra Leone.
