Trained community health workers under the project “Integrated Community-based Livelihood Project for Typhoon Yolanda Survivors in Medellin and Daanbantayan, Cebu” conducted a series of health education activities in their communities in September 2019.
The project is a wholistic project on social development implemented by the Cebu-Bohol Relief and Rehabilitation Center (CRRC) which provides livelihood projects and social services to the residents in the barangays. The VPHCS partners with the CRRC in the health component of the project.
The areas include Barangays Kawit, Daanglungsod, Maharugay, Gibitngil, Mahawak, Dalingding Sur, and Antipolo in Medellin and Malingin in Daanbantayan The health education activities covered the following topics, namely: (1) home remedies for common illnesses (2) environmental sanitation (3) lagundi syrup and ginger ale processing (4) control of hypertension and (5) control of acute respiratory tract infection
