In , the Peace Corps launched Stomp Out Malaria in Africa. Peace Corps volunteers are trained so they can be directly involved in education to prevent Malaria. Ms Eckhart is one of the volunteers who presents lessons in fun ways that will help the children remember.
The one with most fun was a tag game where two kids play the roles of mosquitoes and if they tagged someone, that person became infected and had to sit down.
Susan Eckhart teaches students from first grade through fifth grade. Older children who had attended a leadership camp came to help with the games. The older children also translated the Malaria information into the local Dagaare language.
One of our volunteers wrote a very good song to the tone of We will, We will rock you, as the hint came out is - we can stop malaria with stomping and clapping. And the kids just love it.
Children also acted in short plays and wrote and sang songs about malaria.
We are living in the villages with the villagers, and we can introduce these subjects, you know, in a casual conversation of a calabash of the local beer.
It is too soon to tell how much of the important information in the songs and games it shared with families. But Susan Eckhart says using Peace Corps volunteers to spread the word on preventing Malaria is a good idea. Being part of the community means sharing knowledge, she adds, especially about something as important as Malaria.
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