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Schools and Health Care Centers thank Australia for AHP Covid-19 Response Project

Schools and Health Care Centers thank Australia for AHP Covid-19 Response Project

Second-grade students of Ta-Besi Fera-Naben-Fuat Primary School in Fuat village, Illomar administrative administrative post, in Lautem municipality. Tatoli's image//Fiomeno Martins

LAUTEM, 28 february 2022 (TATOLI) – More than 20 schools and 13 village clinics in Lautem municipality thanked the Government of Australia for its Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) Covid-19 Response Project.

Plan International in Timor-Leste (PITL), in partnership with Child Fund, implemented the AHP Covid-19 Response Project in Lautem, by distributing hygiene kits to schools and village clinics to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

“During the Covid-19 time, we provided hygiene kits to 28 schools and 13 village clinics in two administrative posts, namely Lautem and Iliomar,” Project Coordinator of Child Fund in Lautem, Gonçalo Ximenes told reporters in Iliomar administrative post, in Lautem municipality.

He said Child Fund will also support three schools in Luro administrative post with the distribution of the same hygiene kits and water tanks to all village clinics and health care centers across Luro.

“These hygiene kits would help teachers, students, health workers, and patients to protect themselves from Covid-19 and other communicable diseases. So, they need to take care of these materials, especially the water tanks and handwashing buckets,” Ximenes said.

At the same place, Alégria David, the Coordinator of the Primary School, Ta-Besi Fera-Naben-Fuat, in the Iliomar administrative post said that the distribution of soaps, face masks, hand washing buckets, and water tank indeed crucial for his school to prevent the transmission of the Covid-19 among students.

“We also received banners and posters which were helpful for our children to learn how to protect themselves from the virus. We thank ChildFund for all the support. You know some of the materials such as hand washing buckets are still in use,” he said.

Ta-Besi Fera-Naben-Fuat Primary School has a total of 147 students and six teachers.

In addition, the head of Iliomar Health Care Center, Narçisio Camões, informed that Child Fund has been working closely with the health centers, particularly on spreading information on the benefits of the Covid-19 vaccines to communities in the remote areas: “Apart from hygiene kits, Child Fund supported us with raising the awareness of the communities and convincing the communities to receive the Covid-19 vaccines.

“We will keep working with the Child Fund to support those communities who need the support,” he said.

Over 81.1% of the 39.017 eligible adults in Iliomar had received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccines, of which 66% had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

Iliomar Health Care Center has three doctors, seven nurses, and two midwives.

Jornalista: Filomeno Martins

Editor: Rafy Belo

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