American Red Cross and its Measles Initiative partners are traveling to Ghana in December to vaccinate nearly eight million children against the highly contagious and deadly disease, completing the last of nine countries in this year’s schedule vaccination campaigns.
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As we depart in the early morning hours for our first day in the field, the streets of Accra are already filled with rush hour traffic and the typical sounds of the Monday morning hustle and bustle to get to work.
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More than 250 volunteers and vaccinators join together to pick up their supplies for the day, break into teams and disperse into the 12 districts in the Volta Region for their second full day of measles vaccinations.
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After seeing two days filled with children in schools and those in villages and markets, the idea that eight million children could be vaccinated in one week now seemed possible to us. We were now on our way to HoHoe District to visit the hospital there and speak to nurses and families.
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"Everywhere we go we see so many children. You could take a million pictures of these little faces when they get their shot and you’ll never see exactly the same expression," said Michael Hawkins, a member of the American Red Cross Board of Governors. "It doesn’t matter where you are, children are all the same when it comes to this – they wince, cry, stare straight ahead, run off. Not one face is ever exactly alike."
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A Ghanaian boy shows purple dye on his finger used to identify children as having received the measles vaccine already.
A line of children at a vaccine post.
These two kindergartners are a pair of four sets of twins recently vaccinated at their school.
Volunteers learn to use hand held computers.
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