ليبيريا: أنشطة لتوعية المجتمع الإسلامي بمخاطر الإيبولا

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

قام فريق من أعضاء مشروع "مبادرة مجتمع مقاطعة مونتسيرادو"، بلقاء مجموعة من رموز وأفراد المجتمع الإسلامي بالمسجد الرئيسي بمنطقة "ويست بوينت".

وذلك في إطار حملات التوعية بمخاطر مرض "الإيبولا"، وكيفية التعامل معه، والتعرف على آراء المسلمين واقتراحاتهم لمواجهة المرض.

وقد تضمن اللقاء حثَّ المسلمين على اتخاذ التدابير الوقائية، علاوةً على توزيع المطويات التعريفية باللغة العربية للمساعدة في نشر التوعية.

وفي الصدد ذاته، عارَض قطاع من المسلمين بشدة فكرة حرْق جُثث ضحايا الإصابة بالمرض؛ لكونه مخالفًا لتعاليم الإسلام، وأكد المسؤولون لأقارب ضحايا المرض أن الحكومة ستُعامل جثث الضحايا من المسلمين بعناية واحترام؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Ebola Outreach Goes to Muslim Neighborhoods in Liberia

A team from the Montserrado Community Based Initiative Project (MCBIP) over the weekend took Ebola sensitization outreach to Muslim neighborhoods in West Point. The team headed by Varlee Sanor, United Nations Volunteer (UNV) Field Associate on the MCBI project, held meetings with Muslims at the West Point Central Mosque on Saturday and Sunday.

The meeting was intended to solicit the views of members of the Muslim community and to seek possible ways of collaborating to battle the deadly Ebola virus disease in communities. These are efforts geared toward promoting and enforcing the Liberian Government "zero new Ebola cases" by December 25. The gathering was necessitated by reports about continuous denial, secret burials in the communities, hiding of sick and other anti-Ebola practices in the communities.

During the meetings, Sanor told the Muslims not to be complacent, as the virus was still in the country and continues to kill people in communities in Liberia. He said many people in Liberia have heard and accepted the preventive messages, but continue to be blinded by different cultural and traditional practices."The fight against the Ebola virus has been difficult not because the messages are not reaching the people, but because of culture and traditions... " Mr. Sanor said.He told the Muslim community that the government and partners were working to ensure that their dead family members are handled with the care and respect they deserve.

Members of the Muslim community have persistently opposed to the cremation of their dead relatives which is against the Islamic faith. At the meeting, leaflets containing various Ebola preventive messages translated in Arabic were distributed to the people in the gathering. The Government of Liberia and partners have put in place the necessary measures to achieve the target of 'no new Ebola case' before Christmas.