FROM THE FIELD
Concern has been working in Liberia since 1996, during much of Liberia’s civil war. When the war ended in 2003, Concern’s work slowly moved from emergency work to development work. As part of this, health education was seen as important to returning communities who were displaced during the war. In 2005, Annie Lloyd, an external health consultant, carried out an evaluation of health, hygiene and malaria programmes for Concern in Liberia. Following on from this, it was decided that the Child-to-Child programme should be introduced to camps for people who had been forced from their land, and for the communities who were then hosting them in Bong County. The health education initiative was also incorporated into Concern’s programme to fight malaria.[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
