Cholera is a concern in Cameroon. Plan is using volunteers and educational activities like skits, handwashing demonstrations, comic books, and posters to raise awareness about preventing and treating cholera among children and communities. The goal is to engage a wide range of groups like students, vendors, and families to spread knowledge about how to stop the spread of cholera.

1. Cholera
in Cameroon
Leading the charge:
Plan is using ‘cholera
soldiers’ to raise
awareness about the
prevention and
treatment of cholera.

2. Show and tell: Children perform a skit warning of the dangers of cholera and
how to stay safe.

3. All hands on deck: A Plan
volunteer and children
demonstrate how to wash hands
properly at a school assembly.

4. Glued to the page: Comic books with a cholera prevention message educate
and engage children.

5. Community is key: Vendors at a local market are given information on how they
can do their part to prevent the spread of cholera.

6. Knowledge is power: Posters are
also used as a way of spreading
information about how to avoid
cholera.

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