TMT Malaria Month Challenge 2015

On April 25th the entire planet will be marking World Malaria Day by raising awareness and reenergizing the fight against this deadly disease. But for Peace Corps, one day just isn’t gonna cut it. We hereby proclaim April as World Malaria Month! i

THE CHALLENGE Through the Tanzania Malaria Team’s competition, every super-region will have the opportunity to prove why their PCVs are the most committed and creative in their mission to stomp out malaria. Projects will be completed, points will be earned, and major bragging rights will be awarded to the top performers. Join us for a contest that will make a concentrated impact in your community!

HOW IT WORKS Included in this packet are a number of suggestions for activities to carry out both in country and online. Each activity completed will earn your super-region points. The harder the activity, the more points you earn. In order for your activities to receive points, you must report them to your Regional Coordinator. Don’t see a specific project listed? No problem! If you complete a project outside of existing recommendations, just send the description to your Regional Coordinator and we’ll assign a point value. The sky's the limit!

SUPER-REGION BREAKDOWN Regional Contact Information Super-Region Coordinator John Cox A: 0782135129 Shinyanga, Kilimanjaro, Arusha [email protected] Jocelyn Keranen A: 0687594171 Dodoma, Singida, Manyara V: 0683019074 [email protected] Fletcher Davis A: 0786024279 Mbeya, Rukwa, Tabora [email protected] Sarah Munteanu A:0687594704 Iringa, Njombe V:0764474364 [email protected] Adam Nothem A: 0687593798 Lindi, Mtwara, Ruvuma [email protected] Ben Welna A:0683143416 Tanga, Dar, Morogoro, Pemba, V:0765671954 Zanzibar [email protected] A special thanks to John Cox and Alina Siegrist for helping out the Malaria Team during this challenge! Asanteni sana!

FINE PRINT The competition runs from April 1-May 12 2015. Each time you complete an activity, inform your Regional Coordinator, who will be tracing activities for your super-region and updating the score sheet daily to pass on the National Coordinator, who will keep track of how each super-region is progressing.

Don’t forget to count the number of people reached in your activity (this includes mass media). The super-region with the most points at the end of the month will be bathed in glory and a prize to envy! There are even a couple of prizes to recognize individual achievements!

GROUND RULES As with all competitions, there are some ground rules to keep everything fair. If you have any questions with the rules, your Regional Coordinator will help you out.

1. You must acquire at least 40 points to be considered an active member for group prizes. 2. Points are given only to activities both done and reported during the time frame of April 1st through May12th. If you have an event on March 31st, awesome! But it doesn’t count. If you do an event on May 5th but don’t report it to your Regional Coordinator until May 13th, pole sana, no points. 3. The organizer of the activity or event gets all the points for that activity. For example, if Suzie has a village event and Gary and Chester come help out, Suzie receives all of the points. If Gary and Chester stop at a soko along the way and give a joint lesson on malaria, they will have to decide who is the organizer and, therefore, the receiver of the points. If they each give separate lessons with different audiences, they can both claim those points. 4. Only repeat activities if they are for a different audience. For example, don’t do the Nightwatch Program for the primary school twice in a month to rack up points. But, if you’re going to MSC and you want to teach on the bus to and from Dar, count it twice! Speaking of buses, they only count if it’s a bus ride where you can engage people long enough for a whole lesson, so no daladalas. Points for seemingly repeated activities will be given final approval or dismissal by the Malaria Committee. 5. Each activity is considered a single event and worth the proscribed amount of points. Do not try to double count events—this is considered cheating. Not cool. If the Malaria Coordinators find evidence of an individual cheating, all points they have accrued for their region will be invalid. Remember, the competition is really secondary to the main goal of Malaria Month. The most important thing is spreading malaria awareness and education to help protect our communities and help move Tanzania one step closer to eliminating malaria—prizes and bragging rights are just the icing on the cake.

PRIZES  Super-Region Winners: Each active participant, as defined above, in the winning super-region will gain an extra day away from site! That’s right! You will be able to add a day to your trip to Zanzibar or Zambia with Peace Corps approval!  Individual Winners: For the individual that earns the most points, and the one that reaches the most people, you will each be treated to a wonderful meal with EB and/or Lenny (depending on availability)! That’s right, you get a free safi meal in Dar with our CD and/or DPT!

Activity Suggestions: Activities marked with an asterisk have more detailed descriptions at the end of the document.

Note that these are just suggestions. You are free to participate in any way you see fit and the Tanzania Malaria Team (TMT) will assign points accordingly. This list should get you started, but don’t let it limit you! We have resources to help you implement any of the below. Awareness and Advocacy (Third Goal) Activities

Activity Point Details s Update your Facebook status with a malaria- related message. Mention “@Stomp Out What’s Your Malaria” and earn an extra point. Limit five Status?* 4 updates. Change your Facebook profile and/or cover photo to a malaria logo. See files here: Mug Shot 5 http://goo.gl/vWRPwH Some Like it “Like” the Stomping Out Malaria in Africa Stomped 5 Facebook page. Follow Along 1.0 5 Follow @StompOutMalaria on Twitter. Follow Along 1.0 5 Follow StompoutmalariaTZ on Instagram. For each 1st goal activity you complete (below), you will receive 2 extra points for Social Media writing it about it on Facebook if you tag Bonus 2 @StompOutMalaria. Write a blog entry (or mass email) dedicated to malaria for the Blog About Malaria Month Competition. Go here for more details: Blogs Away 20 http://goo.gl/zfiSbG Participating in Worldwide Schools? Help an American classroom participate in the “malaria challenge” lesson. The teacher should write a brief summary of how the lesson went. 20 Bonus points if the teacher Malaria writes a guest blog post about the Challenge* 20 experience. Convince an American friend or family Social member to complete one of the above social Butterfly 1.0 2 media activities. Convince a host country friend or colleague Social to complete one of the above social media Butterfly 2.0 5 activities. When you upload pictures concerning your malaria work on Instagram add #StompoutmalariaTZ (stop earning points Picture This 2 after 20 pictures…but feel free to add more!)

Outreach (First Goal) Activities Economic Development

Activity Point Details s Talk to local businesses about the importance of keeping their employees healthy. For example: for the price of a mosquito net, they’d be saving themselves Vested money by increased output of healthy Interest 10 workers. Figure out the cost of malaria to your community (village, cell, etc.) by looking at Cost of health center or pharmacy records and do a Malaria* 100 visual representation of the expenses.

Education

Activity Point Details s The Nightwatch curriculum is a series of 30- minute lessons for students that can be adapted for anyone in your area. Gather a group and lead them through the lessons for Nightwatch* 30 a week. Malaria in the 20 Incorporate malaria into your academic Classroom lesson plans (ready made lesson plans in French and English here: http://stompoutmalaria.org/classroomconnec tions or just contact your Regional Coordinator) Create a puzzle or worksheet that tests Riddle Me This 20 students on malaria knowledge Use an existing rice-sack Big Book or create Read-Aloud 20 your own about malaria to read to children. Malarial Write a malaria lesson in English for your English 15 students or English club. Host a malaria essay or art contest with kids Youth Clubs 30 in your youth club or classrooms.

Fun and Games

Activity Point Details s Do a soccer match/tournament (or any GOOOOAAAAALLLL sporting event) malaria half time L 30 sensitization. Play Malaria Freeze tag with children. 2 points/player. Rules can be found here: http://stompoutmalaria.org/weekly- awesome-ghana-freeze-you-have- Freeze Tag! 15 malaria/ Grassroot Soccer Lead a Grassroot Soccer training with Malaria Skills 30 local youth. Make a mosquito with paper mache, then help explain importance of net usage while crushing it! NOTE: This can get reallllly rowdy with kids. Make sure you're making it safe by keeping the crowd well back from Mosquito Pinata 20 the person with the bat!

Health

Activity Point Details s Buddy Up 15 Help the community health workers/teachers in your community talk about malaria. Work with them to prepare their discussion topics, etc. Ask health professionals why they feel people don’t take IPTp or use nets year- round. Gather most common results and use as a basis for a questionnaire. Barrier Aggregate results and report finding to Analysis 50 Stomp. Survey minimum of 50 people.

General

Activity Points Details How’s it Take and submit a photo of an Hanging?* 5 interestingly hung net. Limit five photos. Help someone hang a previously un-hung (or improperly hung) net, including before Hang it up! 5 and after photos. Limit ten. Similar to above. If you participated in your region’s net distribution, conduct follow-up with families having received nets and Follow ensure that they are hung properly. Five Through 5 points per visit. Get out your sewing kit and help someone repair the holes in their mosquito net. Handyman 10 Limit 10. Changing square nets to circle nets is easy Don’t Be So and makes hanging nets easier for people Square 10 living in thatched huts. Work with a community member to translate a malaria activity or resource into local language. More points to be given for translation of longer documents. We The suggest working on the Malaria Skillz Interpreter* 30 curriculum! Share the 10 Have great resources that can be used in Wealth other countries? Send them to [email protected] so they can be shared on the Google Drive and/or website. Spend your time on a bus giving a presentation to fellow travelers. Talk about statistics, proper cleaning methods of nets, Are We There importance of early testing, etc. 5 Yet? 5 points/passenger engaged. An already made group is an excellent opportunity. Visit an existing group (health club, mosque/church, bank on payday, etc) Captive to discuss malaria and healthy prevention Audience 5 behaviors . 5 points/person engaged. Hold an informational malaria session or training of trainers of at least 30 minutes (with or without a counterpart). 20 points for up to five participants and five point for Let’s Talk 20 each additional participant. Become a market lady! Run a market malaria booth and “sell” malaria Sell It* 30 information for at least an hour. Investigate the availability and source of Journey to the malaria commodities at your site and write Center of the a one-page report or blog entry with your Supply Chain* 50 data/findings. Take photos of at least 20 community members who use their mosquito nets (with their mosquito nets) and post them Wall of Fame* 40 at your health center. Go on an informational malaria tour to at least 3 villages, with at least one activity (i.e. sensitization) per village, plus 50 Malaria Bike points for every additional village. HINT: Tour 100 This activity is more fun in a group! Host a malaria quiz bowl. One person from Is That Your each village, sub-village, group, or class Final Answer? 20 will be quizzed on all things malaria.

Media and Arts Activity Point Details s Gather a group of friends (or kids) and put on a skit in local language for an audience of five or more. Ten bonus points for a Acting Out 25 video. Write a malaria song and teach it to your Sing Along friends and colleagues. 10 bonus points for Song 30 submitting a video. Create a malaria-themed mural in your Picasso 40 community. Make a template, mass produce it, and Malaria paint every surface in sight (with Graffitti 20 permission of course!) Host a community radio show session on malaria in local language. Add 5 points for Radio Show 30 every person who calls in with questions Gather a group to listen to a malaria Listen In 10 podcast or radio show. Create an activity resource (a detailed How'd You Do how-to guide) for PCVs based on a previous That? 20 malaria project experience of yours Work with a phone carrier on a mass- Textual 50 texting BCC campaign Have PSI or JHU come out with a mobile video unit to show a movie about malaria Movie Night 20 in your village.

Project Descriptions

What’s Your Status? Let your friends and family know that April 25th is World Malaria Day, and tell them what you are doing to fight malaria in your community.

Blogs Away: Stomping Out Malaria Africa is encouraging each and every PCV in Africa to write a blog post (or mass email, if that is your style) about malaria during the month of April. In addition to being seen by your friends and family at home, your work will be featured on the Stomping Out Malaria in Africa website. Write a blog post (or email) on the subject of malaria, and post it as normal. As soon as your post is up, call your national malaria coordinator (Holly Trace 0786621247) and let her know.

Have the following information ready:  Your full legal name, your email address, and phone number  The URL of your blog post (not myblog.blogpost.com, but myblog.blogspot.com/malariapost)  A photo you’d like to serve as the face of your post (it can be one already in post)  Whether you are willing to have Peace Corps place a story about you in your hometown newspaper  Whether you are willing to have Peace Corps contact your congressional delegation about your work  A copy of the release form (attached) so Peace Corps can legally publish your work. Just fill out an electronic copy—no need to print or scan

Posts from across the continent will be posted on www.stompoutmalaria.org/bamm 2015 and may even apear on www.peacecorps.gov and Peace Corps’ Facebook page

How’s it Hanging? One of the biggest complaints with net giveaways is that recipients don’t know how to hang their nets. Take a picture of some creatively hung nets and we’ll share them across Africa.

Nightwatch: To get a copy of this curriculum, contact Holly. If you would like to see how this curriculum has been implemented in other countries, read here: http://stompoutmalaria.org/nightwatch-curriculum-week/

The Interpreter: To get a copy of the Malaria Skillz lesson plan, contact Holly.

Sell it: Become a market lady! Find yourself a place in the market, set up a table, and start selling knowledge about malaria. For the best effect, hang up a mosquito net over your table, Try to set it up so that people have to come into the net to talk to you. Inside the net, set up quick trivia games with malaria facts. Make them multiple choice to make things more fun. For example, make a sign/piece of paper that says, “Where does Malaria come from? A) Mangoes B) Mosquitoes C) Dirty Laundry.” Along with the words, exercise your artistic skills and draw the corresponding pictures. Other possible questions: What should I do if I have a fever? (Answer: Go immediately—within 24 hours—to the doctor, especially for small children.) Where do malaria mosquitoes (anopheles) breed? (Answer: clean, still water.) If you want, give small candies to people who get 3 or more questions right.

Journey to the Center of the Supply Chain: Malaria is preventable and 100% treatable, but there is often poor access to bed nets, testing equipment, medication and medical facilities. If you have a health facility, pay them a visit! Explain to them your role in the community and that Peace Corps is now working in malaria prevention. Ask them how many malaria cases they have per month, how they diagnose malaria, whether they have mosquito nets, RDTs and ACTs (Coartem, the frontline drug for treatment of malaria). If there is a stock-out, ask why and find out when they’re going to get more. Ask if they order them (pull demand) or if they just show up (push demand). Do they show up regularly or once every 5 years? Is money an issue with procuring the above items? If so, are operational costs able to cover procurement costs? If they do have all the items, ask them if there are ever any stock outs. Ask when this typically happens and what they do about it.

If you don’t have a health facility, go to the market or at least two pharmacies and look for the same commodities, and ask similar questions. Compare any private health facilities with the public ones in your community. Next, identify the closest place to your site that has these items available. Brainstorm ways of getting these items from point A to point B. This could be done by identifying potential actors in your community who could be connected to the closest supplier. Is there regular transportation between the two points? Would the driver be willing to transport items? This doesn’t have to be a big operation. In some cases it is a student that travels between the two sites each day to attend classes. Write a one-page report or blog with your data and findings.

Wall of Fame: This project is designed to encourage the proper use of mosquito nets. Visit households with a community health worker (CHW) or community change agent (CCA) or another work partner to see who is properly hanging and using their nets. Ask to take the photo of those who are sleeping under their mosquito nets next to their nets. Post each photo at the village health facility to encourage positive net behaviors and raise awareness for malaria. The home visits also provide good opportunities to talk about malaria, show how to correctly attach a mosquito net so no mosquitoescan enter, and discuss how to get a net if they don’t have one. See pictures of this project from Senegal: http://stompoutmalaria.org/weekly-awesome-senegal-bed-net-pride-project/

Cost of Malaria: Help your community members understand the economic impact of malaria in your area by giving them a visual representation of the amount of money sent on treatment each year. See here an example from Senegal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4kbZE . The volunteer calculated the cost of malaria treatments and consultations in hiw village and calculated this cost in bags of rice. He filled the equivalent amount of rice sacks with grass and lined the road to his health center for a visual representation far more effective than spitting numbers alone. Follow this model or adapt the idea to local context. If you do this project, be sure that you village leaders know what you are doing. i This document is a modified version of Stomp’s 2014 International Malaria Month Challenge.