World Rabies Day
Imagine 3500 pupils all
gathered together for an interactive lesson about rabies; this is what “All
Creatures” did on 28th September 2016, we held this educative
sensitization program as it was World Rabies Day. At “All Creatures” we have
keen interest in children as we believe that it is easier and beneficial to
train children in animal welfare in their formative years because this is when
they are most impressionable and therefore teachable. We believe that whatever
is learnt in these early stages of life has a lasting impression on the
learners.
It is because of this that
“All Creatures” decided to take World Rabies Day to Kafulu primary school in
area 22, Lilongwe to impress on the children the importance of Rabies vaccines
and the precautionary measures to be taken against rabies and what should be
done as first aid reaction when one is bitten by a dog suspected of having
rabies.
The children laughed,
cheered, sang and danced as they learnt; it was especially exciting when the
education team came through the crowd onto the stage wearing masks of different
animals as they sought to help the children identify which of the animals
presented is a transmitter of rabies. At the end of the lesson, the kids who
correctly answered questions from the lesson delivered, each won a t-shirt
courtesy of the International Fund For Animal Welfare (IFAW).
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