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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/c3b28c14-852d-4b74-8465-7cfcd88ad092

Title: Handwashing photos

Description: These photos are the result of our sensitization about washing hands. As I told you last time, I went to all Zerenkel villages and in some other communities to sensitize people about the coronavirus and its measures of prevention. About the zerenkel community, you know there is no weekly market in Zerenkel villages. So people go to Mongo, Banda or Korlongo to buy or sell their products. By doing so, they are very exposed to the coronavirus because there are many cases of coronavirus in Mongo for instance and one basic attitude people must adopt is washing their hands at the entrance of the village before going back to their homes. So I struggled in order to let people understand that it is very important to have a device (water and soap) at the entrance of all villages and everybody must wash his hands when coming from somewhere and when leaving the village. You can see in the first photo that at the entrance of Sirbodom village (the biggest village in zerenkel community), there is a device of water and soap people use to wash their hands when coming to the village or when leaving the village. I realised these photos the day people went to Mongo for the weekly market.

Date created: 2020-05

Location

Continent: Africa

Country: Chad

Region: Guera Region, Dadjo 1 Canton

Address: Sirbodom

Project

ID: IGS0257

Name: 0369-IGS0257

Description: Zerenkel is an undocumented and endangered language spoken by circa 3000 rural inhabitants of the Guera region of Chad. This project aims to document a range of communicative events associated with highly endangered practices such as marriage rites, which are being lost to the community, and produce a phonology and grammar sketch. Due to a number of factors, the Zerenkel language and culture is under threat. Fortunately, in 2005, members of the community formed an association to develop and promote their language. This project will be undertaken in close collaboration with the community and aims to develop multilingual language and socio-cultural resources for the community.