Rabies Education & Awareness Campaign Tracker
* ENDRABIESNOW
Vigyan Setu Foundation is one of the key supporting organizations for ENDRABIESNOW Global Campaign
* Rabies Ambassador Programme 2023
Rabies Education and Awareness Campaign Tracker (REACT)
One of the key functional areas of Vigyan Setu Foundation is to sensitize and raise awareness about zoonotic diseases. As a part of this commitment, presently, the focus is on Rabies – a fatal yet preventable disease of public health importance.
Vigyan Setu Foundation has initiated Rabies Education and Awareness Campaign, which is dedicated to reaching out far and wide through a combination of engaging community outreach, educational workshops, utilizing social media platforms, and online resources, to empower individuals with the knowledge about rabies prevention. Raising awareness and dispelling myths surrounding rabies, aims at fostering a safer and more informed society, ultimately working towards the global eradication of rabies.
Rabies Education and Awareness Campaign Tracker (REACT) is a powerful tool that allows measuring the impact and effectiveness of the initiatives; monitoring the reach of educational materials, the number of individuals who have participated in the workshops, and gauging the engagement on social media platforms. Analysis of the data collected can continuously refine strategies and tailor the messages to better resonate with the target audience. This tracker would empower to make data-driven decisions, ensuring that the campaign remains efficient and relevant in ongoing mission to combat rabies and save lives.
Vigyan Setu Foundation firmly believes that education and awareness are the key factors that can help in eliminating Rabies. As a part of REACT, Vigyan Setu Foundation launched Rabies Ambassador 2023 Programme of 06th July 2023, the World Zoonosis Day.
Rabies Ambassador 2023 Programme (RA23)
Objectives:
- To assess the levels of knowledge and understanding about zoonosis in general, and rabies in particular, in the society
- To sensitize, educate and raise awareness among the members of the society in general, and the younger generation in particular
- To strive for achieving the goal of Zero by 30
- To empower Rabies Ambassadors for conducting sensitization, education and awareness programmes
Approach:
The RA23 programme has two stages:
Stage I –
- Registration of prospective Rabies Ambassadors
- Prospective Rabies Ambassadors to conduct online survey for assessment of the knowledge and understanding about zoonosis in general, and rabies in particular
- Those garnering a minimum of twenty-five responses, move to Stage II
Stage II –
- Prospective Rabies Ambassadors to make a minimum of five presentations on sensitization, education and awareness creation in schools, colleges, or open fora
- Supporting resource material to be provided to the prospective Rabies Ambassadors enabling them to streamline their presentations
Stage II closed on September 25, 2023
Outcome: Outreach:
Presentations during Stage II, on Know Rabies for No Rabies, were conducted in fifty-odd schools by our zealous Rabies Ambassadors in the states of Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, and Puducherry. These interactive sessions were aimed at sensitizing the younger generation.
In the process, more than six thousand students from the middle to senior secondary level along with their teachers were addressed. Reaching out to around twenty-five thousand indirect beneficiaries, is the first small step. Many more to be taken in near future.
Rabies Ambassadors, who emerged from this initiative, are as follows:
- Dr Smruti Smita Mohapatra Samal from Jammu and Kashmir
- Mrs Chitra Singh from Haryana
- Dr Priyanka H Chaudhari from Gujarat
- Mr Ravichandrane Balaraman from Puducherry
- Dr Rajendra B Deshmukh from Maharashtra
- Dr Rajesh Senma from Gujarat
- Mr Arshad Hussain from Jammu and Kashmir
Hearty congratulations and best wishes for their future endeavours. Here are the glimpses of the interactive sessions engaged by our Rabies Ambassadors:
