The national action week Giro 555 for the victims of Ebola ends with a big action at Sound and Vision at the Media Park in Hilversum. Photo ANP / Piroschka of Kite
Dutch during the national campaign against Ebola total of over 10.3 million contributed to the fight against the disease. Hundreds of people, children and companies were collecting Giro555 for example by organizing a sponsored walk or raise deposit. The Cooperating Aid Organisations (SHO) made the final of the fundraiser today.
The money collected is used to include food, medical care, counseling, distribution of hygiene kits and the care of orphans. According to the latest figures in the affected countries in West Africa just over 22,000 cases of Ebola identified. Nearly 8800 people are deceased to the virus. Meanwhile, the number of new infections has declined.
Belpanel celebrities
To the epidemic in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone to cope, the organizations united in SHO started its first national action for a disease that has caused a disaster. In mid-January showed the final standings all that the counter stood at over 10 million.
The national action began on 28 November at the Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum. There was deployed include a belpanel of Dutch celebrities, where more than 20,000 people called them to donate. The public broadcaster sent special news bulletins and all channels and broadcasters paid attention to the action.
End in sight?
Although the number of new cases of the illness declined, yet it can be a take half a year before the epidemic is under control. The approach of organizations is shifted, “from slowing the outbreak to ending the epidemic.”
Aid agencies focus currently on Guinea, one of the three countries that were hit hardest. Liberia come hardly new cases of Ebola in. In the heavily affected slum West Point is one during the epidemic isolation center renamed school again soon open to students
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