YOUTH SERVICE AFRICA (YSA)

https://www.givingway.com/project/5f5b59 

About this project STOP COVID-19 IN BENIN is an emergency project to meet urgent needs in order to stop the spread of the corona pandemic. The project aims to intervene in the most remote areas of Benin (Villages and hamlets) especially for women, children and young people who do not have access to health care and whose health centers are non-existent. We are asking for help in order to provide these underprivileged and vulnerable groups with the basic necessities to protect them from virus contamination while awaiting the major means to eradicate the pandemic. Use of Proceeds We want to use this process to come to the aid of health agencies which not only lack a health center in the most remote locations but also lack basic necessities to treat populations. This process will allow us to help people who are left to make their own destiny without care and basic necessities.

The first cases of the Covid-19 pandemic are detected in Benin from March 16, 2020. The first confirmed case is a 49-year-old Burkinabé who returned to Benin on March 12, 2020. Between March 16, 2020 and March 23, 2020, 4 new cases are detected in Benin. As of April 3, 2020, the cumulative assessment published by the government of Benin shows 16 confirmed cases, 2 healings and 1 death. Faced with the constantly increasing number of contaminated subjects, as well as health workers, the NGO Youth Service Africa (YSA) in partnership with other civil society organizations (NGO Bien Etre Santé, POJ-DDC) , ODDB) come to ask for help of good wills to support the health agencies of Benin and assistance to the population (distribution of protective materials) in order to slow the spread of the virus in the country. Due to the low income of the population which is less than a dollar a day, the purchase of protection kits poses a real problem. This increases the risk of con