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The people who helped fight Ebola in the DRC – a look at the EU-supported Save the Children project

What does the work of a local community worker entail? One of the major challenges of the Ebola response was to combat misinformation about Ebola and to have the community’s cooperation in the measures taken to keep the disease from spreading.

 

David, a community worker from Mandima, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, helped in monitoring contacts (individuals who had come into contact with Ebola) for symptoms and raised awareness about the virus.

 

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Uploaded on March 18, 2020
Taken on September 17, 2019