Oxfam Quebec
$500,000.00 CAD
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- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program The named fund or plan that the money comes from.
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- Recipient country
- Sierra Leone
- Fiscal year The government's budget year. It starts on April 1 and ends on March 31. For example, 2023-2024 is from April 2023 to March 2024.
- 2014-2015
- Agreement period The start date and the end date of the deal. The money can be paid at different times in this period.
- December 12, 2014 – August 31, 2015
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-D001700001
Published purpose
November 2014 - On August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa an international health emergency. The Ebola outbreak started in Guinea and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. There have been over 15,000 cases of Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to date, including more than 5,400 deaths. The current outbreak is unprecedented in terms of its scale, geographic reach, humanitarian impact, as well as its social and economic repercussions. The number of cases and deaths surpass all previous Ebola epidemics combined. With DFATD’s support, Oxfam Québec is helping to reduce and control the spread of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. Project activities include: (1) conducting public health promotion activities and disseminating educational messages to increase awareness and knowledge of prevention techniques and personal and environmental hygiene practices; (2) providing personal protective equipment such as gloves and masks to health workers, surveillance and burial teams; (3) constructing sanitation facilities in treatment centres; and (4) increasing access to clean water and sanitation in targeted slum areas.
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