KICK MALARIA OUT (KMO) 2009 which comes off between 20th August 2009 to 20th
September 2009 in 6 West African countries (Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana,
Liberia, Benin and Nigeria), an initiative of Volunteer Partnerships
for West Africa (VPWA), a non-profit, non governmental youth-led
development oriented organization base in Accra, Ghana has been awarded
a 5 months publicity advertising space on Worldwidehelpers.org valued
at £ 7500
Worldwidehelpers.org
is a UK based non-profit online platform connecting worldwide
volunteers to placements with non-profit institutions globally. This
advertising space is the first of it kind by Worldwidehelpers.org to be
extended to an African organization.
In a
statement released by Miss Roya Elghanian, Chairman of Worldwide
Helpers, she indicated her organization’s commitment to support such a
worthy project and hope this offer to VPWA and the KMO initiative will
go a long way to help raise global publicity and awareness about
Malaria and it staggering effect on the African continent with a call
to Action to eliminate the disease from the continent.
Mr
Hayford Siaw, Executive Director of VPWA, used the opportunity to call
on corporate Ghana and Africa to support such impressive indigenous
initiatives since it is only ‘’we Africans that can solve our own
problems’’.
He
further disclosed some international media networks interest in
covering the outreach in August-September in the sub-region and said it
was an indication of strong commitment by these outfits to global
health. He calls on local media networks in Africa to sign up to cover
the events and to offer airtime for these initiatives to educate the
population as part of their corporate social responsibility.
Mr
Hayford expressed gratitude to Ghana News Agency for it first release
on KMO and also to Atlantis Radio for being the first radio station to
call VPWA and to feature KMO on their news bulletin.
Press Section:
KMO 2009
