Adult Volunteers
The impact on Dengue control depends on how many of us are committed to give 10-20 mins every week to do and promote simple activities for mosquito and dengue control. The adult volunteers contribute about half day every fortnight for the project activities. As part of those activities.
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Community engagement – Informing and encouraging their communities and community associations to undertake Aedes and dengue control activities.
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Encourage reporting of outdoor mosquito breeding sites for mosquito control
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Encouraging reporting of fever case
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Identification of mosquito breeding & resting sites
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Action in the form of prevention & control measures
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Experience sharing/ sharing their learnings with their peers, family and neighbours
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Monitoring of Vector control measures using checklist/app
Bringing their learnings to action
For Children Volunteers
Children are change agents in the society and the project actively engages them in this social health initiative.
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The project encourages children from schools and communities interested in our project work to register as student volunteers.
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Simple dengue prevention and control information is creatively shared with them through fun activities and information webinar.
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They act as dengue detectives, identifying potential mosquito breeding and hiding locations and convincing adults to act upon them.
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They engage in sharing information with peers and neighbours.
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The project is organizing Student awareness campaigns in partnerships with reputed schools of Hyderabad city to generate awareness among students on prevention of Dengue fever and promote development of socially aware students.