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At AYGF, we are poised to tackling health inequalities faced by Canadian black communities. According to the Government of Canada, Anti-Black racism and systemic discrimination are key drivers of health inequalities faced by diverse Black Canadian communities.
On the 22nd March, 2023, Africa Youth Growth Foundation (AYGF), in commemoration of World Water Day 2023, held the Strengthening Individual and Community Response to COVID-19 (STRIC) Webinar, which was the main event of the STRIC Project being implemented by AYGF.
The STRIC Project, funded by Federation of Black Canadians (FBCFCN) AND Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), was aimed at addressing issue around vaccine hesitancy in the black communities of Canada.
The objective of the STRIC Project was to effectively addresses and debunks notions about COVID-19 vaccine uptake amongst Canadian Black communities while promoting Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practices.
The webinar was attended by various community members from British Columbia and Toronto. The Resource Speakers included skilled experts from the black communities such as Constance (Missy) BK, a chief operations officer and business consultant in Quebec, Canada, Grace Udo, a WASH expert and Debra Olaniyi, a representative from FBCFCN.
The capacity and knowledge of health care professionals are strengthened to provide appropriate quality, services related to sexuality and sexual and reproductive health and rights to vulnerable adolescents.
AYGF is implementing a World Bank project on Nutrition tagged Accelerating Nutrition in Nigeria-ANRiN. The objective of the project is to increase access and utilization of integrated, community-based Basic Package of Nutrition Service (BPNS) in half of Kogi and Niger State according to established and agreed targets (for quality and coverage) to reduce the level of malnutrition in States.
To design and implement a comprehensive, context-specific online campaign strategy that effectively addresses and debunks notions about COVID-19 vaccine uptake amongst the target communities.
To ensure sustainability and secure government’s buy-in for the promotion of vaccine uptake through their participation in the campaign promotion.
the intervention phase
Engage and supervise a community champion/ influencer to initiate a campaign that promotes vaccine uptake and debunks issues regarding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy while promoting relevant sites and centers to access the COVID-19 vaccine.
Leverage on the commemoration of significant global days to engage government, private sector and other relevant stakeholders to participate as panelists in town hall webinars.
Social media promotion using Information Education and Communication materials (IECs) such as hashtags, articles, short films and animations.
