Right To Play holds Malaria Day Walk

Accra, April 25, GNA - Right To Play, an international humanitarian organization that use sports and play programmes to teach children life skills and health education on Friday, held a Walk in conjunction with Comfort Stars Athletic Club of Canada as part of activities marking 'Africa's Malaria Day' celebration.

The hour Malaria Walk which started from the Labone Presbyterian Girls Junior High School through Osu and some principal streets of Accra, ended at the Labone Girls School.

About 100 school children, bearing placards, some of which read 'Kick Malaria Out of Africa' 'Malaria Kills' and 'Eradicate Malaria' is to commemorate the Day which falls on April 25.

Miss Abena Anim Adjei, Acting Communications Co-ordinator of Right To Play said the event was also aimed at sensitizing the community on the need to keep their surroundings clean.

She said a lot of children die of malaria every year and that there was the need for everybody to join the crusade against the elimination of the global disease.

"If we all develop the culture of cleanliness, the disease would be completed rolled back" adding that the time had come for all to join the wheel and no one should sit on the fence so that we achieve the general goal of eradication of the disease.

Mrs Alice Otupiri, Overseas Co-ordinator of Comfort Stars Athletic Club charged the children to develop the habit of cleanliness since it is next to Godliness.

The participants later undertook a two-hour clean-up campaign and desilted choked gutters within the community.