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Community Covid Response

Project Harar is committed to providing comprehensive cleft care to patients from rural Ethiopia. Our comprehensive cleft care plan includes the sustainable approach of disseminating health messaging and training to health extension workers who operate in rural communities of Ethiopia via our year round outreach programme. During the pandemic we have adapted our work to continue to support patients and families whilst they wait for surgery, which is now available in some of our partner hospitals at a reduced capacity and with new safety measures. 

Background

At the beginning of March, Elective surgery in Ethiopia was put on hold due to the Coronavirus meaning we were unable to mobilize babies and children who need treatment for a cleft lip or palate, or complex facial disfigurement. The communities in which we work are some of the most disadvantaged in Ethiopia, there is no access to running water making key Covid prevention strategies such as regular hand washing extremely difficult to maintain. There are also numerous challenges to spreading health messaging in these areas and because of limited health facilities and equipment these are the communities which will be overwhelmed by the virus if measures are not taken to prevent spread.

Our Covid Response Programme is supported by UK Events Industry charity Meeting Needs and NGO Manos Unidas. The main focus of the Programme is disseminating constructive comprehensive health messaging into remote communities and equiping health officials and residents with effective and accessible PPE such as water barrels and soap, so families have the extra facility to wash their hands in their own home.

Our Cleft Programme During Covid

Our Cleft Programme During Covid

Read about the adaptations to our Cleft Programme and the new safety measures we have implemented Read more

Published: 20th October, 2020

Author: Rose Edwards

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About the Water Barrels

About the Water Barrels

Click to read about the practical measures we are implementing into the community Read more

Published: 24th August, 2020

Updated: 25th August, 2020

Author: Rose Edwards

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Programme in the SNNPR

Programme in the SNNPR

Click to read about our Covid Response in the Gamo and Gofa Zones of the SNNPR Read more

Published: 24th August, 2020

Updated: 27th August, 2020

Author: Rose Edwards

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Water Barrels, Pilot Programme - Oromia

Water Barrels, Pilot Programme - Oromia

Click here to read about the programmes pilot in Oromia Read more

Published: 24th June, 2020

Updated: 19th January, 2021

Author: Rose Edwards

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From the period of March 2020 to early October, we were unable to mobilise young patients from rural areas in Ethiopia who were waiting to receive treatment for Cleft Lip and Palate. Help ensure infants and children who have been waiting, receive life changing surgery for their cleft lip and palate. Read more

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Published: 5th May, 2020

Updated: 17th December, 2020

Author: Rose Edwards

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