<br> Subject: How I became a health promoter<div class="gmail_quote"> <br>From: Abdulai Bangura <<a href="mailto:gbondoab2003@yahoo.com">gbondoab2003@yahoo.com</a>><br><br><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">I am very delighted to receive a
confirmation note from the PHM Secretariat that my request for
membership has been accepted and that my email is now among the mailing
list of the organization. Meanwhile, my present occupation
is teaching. Naturally, I grew up with the love and spirit of engaging in
activities that brings benefit to the majority of people. For that
reason I am yet serving as a volunteer teacher in my community. This
community sponsored me to college to read for the Higher Teachers
Certificate (HTC), so it is a kind of pay back venture. <br>However, I started growing interest in health issues
since I was in high school. I was staying in a community that did not
pay much attention to their Hygiene. Their source of drinking water was
not properly cared for, their dishes were not properly protected from
flies and other dangerous insects etc. As a result of those poor
practices there was frequent out break of common sicknesses such as
stomach ache, diarrhea and several other complications.I then took up the
challenge to bring it to the notice of the community elders and other
influentials that we needed to do
something about these misfortunes. I was therefore mandated by these
people to come up with strategies that will help improve the situation.
Therefore I drew a plan showing a regular cleaning time table involving
able bodied men and women at the site of their source of water and also,
I innovated a safe means of keeping their dishes away from the
dangerous insects. We used local materials (sticks and rope) to
construct an elevated structure that is quite conducive to hold up
dishes after they have been washes.<br>This of my innovation is still in
practice in this community and in fact has been replicated in other
places. Because of this I am earning a high respect each time I visit
these communities that are practicing my innovation.<br>This is what I
have done that I think is remarkable in terms of improving on the health
status of people in the third world countries especially.<br>Yours sincerely,<br>Abdulai Gbondo
Bangura.<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div>