This week and last, the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION project is delivering sanitary pads to 77,000 adolescent girls in Liberia.
In Liberia, CCP is working to reduce bullying, period stigma and other negative taboos associated with menstruation. “We want people to really get comfortable making menstruation part of normal discourse,” says CCP’s Lindsey Leslie.
With an assist from CCP, one town now has a water pump and a plan to maintain its new source of clean water for drinking, cooking and washing.
Breakthrough ACTION-Liberia played a lead role in agenda setting for the symposium, and organized two sessions on community engagement.
CCP-led research suggests that many in rural Liberia are ill-equipped to build and maintain latrines, leaving a majority of people to use the bush instead.
CCP’s Breakthrough ACTION Liberia project has created health clubs for adolescent boys and girls designed to reduce the high teen pregnancy rate there.
A CCP staffer reflects on her experiences working in Liberia during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, when more than 11,000 people in three countries ultimately died.
Yekee, a longtime CCP staffer in Liberia, was beloved by her colleagues. “She was magnetic,” one recalled. “She had a knack for bringing people together.”
A media campaign in Liberia increased the odds that young children with fevers quickly received appropriate malaria treatment.
In an article on CNN this week, Susan Krenn, Director of CCP explained the importance of using entertainment education to transmit health messages. “This type of programming [entertainment education] really allows you to use creativity and pull people in for the value of the entertainment,
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