March 7, 2010
Relief Group Uses Power of Song to Convey Health Messages in Haiti
Adriana Zehbrauskas/Polaris
Songs created by Save the Children and broadcast over the radio in Haiti are designed to impart information about health and nutrition to earthquake survivors.
The rainy season is starting in Port-au-Prince, bringing with it stagnant water and poor sanitation that increase the threat of diarrhea, malaria, and respiratory infections in the crowded camps that have sprung up since the deadly earthquake in January.
Save the Children’s medical teams are monitoring illnesses in the new settlements. The organization has hired workers to dig drainage ditches to improve sanitation, and it is storing medicines and other supplies near the sites
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