YRE Photo Reportage (of 3–5 photos) 11–25 years old: Honourable Mention

MAKING FACE MASKS FOR PEOPLE OF MURUGU IN TAMALE (Ghana)

This photo is on SDGs 3.d “Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks”. The photo shows the making of reusable face masks for the people in my community Muguru, a village in Tamale. The face masks help to reduce the risk of the villagers to Covid-19 and at the same time help to reduce the worrying environmental issue of careless littering of single use face masks.

In my village Mognori, in the Northern Region of Ghana, is a Junior High School 2nd grade student who schools in a 14 km nearby village called Murugu. Tawfic, as he is called, learned to use his father’s sewing machine and tried making mask with his old unused clothes and I got impressed.

I thought it wise to help in my own way based on the president’s directive in the compulsory wearing of mask so I secured a very nice cotton cloth for him.

He made 50 masks out of it. And with him, I donated them to students in the community especially the final year Senior Highschool Students and Junior Highschool Students. Finally, I explained how to keep the mask safe for use with them.

Jakpa Abugri