On August 7th, 2019, 4 members from One Better World-(OBW) arranged a workshop on Dengue Awareness Raising with a tagline “ঢাকায় ডেঙ্গু প্রতিরোধ” at the slum zone of Gudaraghat, Badda, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

During Rainy season, the slums are the most prone areas to get an increased number of Ades mosquito. So these slum people are in the highest possible danger zone to have dengue! With this thought, One Better World is organizing awareness campaigns for the underprivileged people in various slums of Dhaka to educate them about dengue, it’s severity, sign symptoms and what exact measures they should take to fight against dengue as It’s a health emergency!

The event started around 3.00 pm and went up to 4:30 pm at noon. The workshop started off with discourses regarding the common symptoms of dengue, the preventive measures, self-consciousness, the treatment and costs, and rumors related to dengue. They also emphasized on keeping the environment clean. Later on, an open-ended awareness-raising discussion took place where the women having fever shared her concern regarding dengue fever which was answered by the team.

Dhaka is considered the perfect breeding ground for Aedes Mosquitoes. In the slum, Aedes mosquitoes can breed, flooded floors in toilets, plastic buckets, discarded tires, plastic bags, clay pots, water tanks, old pots, plastic mugs, and metal buckets are left here and there. That’s why at last with 3 of the selected volunteers Jannat, Noor Hossain and Sumaiya from the place joined the team in cleaning around the place.

The event ended by distributing awareness-raising leaflets and refreshments among them. About 50 underprivileged people (men, women & children) were reached through this event.