Our projects

The Ebola crisis which struck Liberia in 2014 has refocused much of the country’s development efforts into fighting and ultimately eradicating this terrible disease. Check One Foundation is taking part in this fight through our Ebola project.

The Ebola virus disease (EVD) is continuing to spread in especially communities without Ebola response team in Liberia through human-to-human transmission. Since the outbreak the virus has proven to be difficult to contain as a result of the following factors:

• “Strong cultural practices and traditional beliefs” in Liberia mean that traditional funeral practices, fear, and misinformation make the outbreak difficult to contain.
• Weak health-care infrastructures, community denial and resistance.
• Local community people have posed fear, misinformation and disbelieve in the existence of the virus.

Education, awareness and distributions of Ebola prevention materials among local community people are the most powerful weapon to fight the virus in a society of approximately 3.7 million people where 80% of the population is illiterate. Therefore in an effort to complement the effort of Government and other humanitarian agencies working to contain the virus,

The Check One Foundation Ebola project focuses on distribution of Ebola preventive materials and messages on the existence and prevention of the Ebola virus especially among citizens of all ages in Swankamore community, Monrovia. The action will help break the barriers of misconceptions among local community about the existence of the virus and prevention methods. This will also give already infected victims the chance and confidence to report cases after contracting the virus.