Chad and Cameroon For the past nine years, ExxonMobil has supported Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, in its efforts to fight malaria using global best practices in disease prevention and treatment. In 2015, the ExxonMobil Foundation provided funding to Jhpiego to provide quality malaria prevention and treatment for more than 700,000 people living along ExxonMobil’s 1,070-kilometer Chad-Cameroon pipeline. Key activities included enhancing the quality and range of malaria-specific services for women in the parts of Chad and Cameroon where basic health care is limited; providing health education tailored to pregnant women; and procuring malaria prevention commodities like bed nets and anti-malarial drugs to ensure clinics in these areas are appropriately stocked. In 2015, the program was responsible for training 150 health providers and 30 supervisors to better oversee and provide malaria prevention and treatment services, as well as helping 159 community health volunteers educate communities about malaria at 71 health facilities. “For decades, malaria seemed to have the upper hand, claiming the lives of countless women and their families. But today, with leadership from governments and innovative partnerships like the one Jhpiego is privileged to have with the ExxonMobil Foundation in Chad and Cameroon — countries where few are willing to invest resources — we are seeing real progress in ending deaths from this preventable and treatable disease. As Jhpiego’s longest-standing corporate partner, ExxonMobil has been an incredible colleague in our fight to improve the health of vulnerable populations in low-resource countries. Their flexibility, commitment to data-driven impact and willingness to tackle new challenges head-on inspires us to push the envelope of what is considered possible and save lives.” Leslie Mancuso President and CEO, Jhpiego
3,000 in Equatorial Guinea. In 2015, GRS was able to scale up its program in Equatorial Guinea by strengthening the organizational capacity of its national partners and working closely with the ministries of health and sport. More than 1,500 boys and girls graduated from the program in Equatorial Guinea in 2015. By the end of 2015, the total number of graduates supported by ExxonMobil was more than 76,000.
prevention. GRS and its local partner, Youth Empowerment and Development Initiative (YEDI), partnered with Special Olympics to launch SKILLZ for Life. This new program uses the organization’s proven model for behavior change in public health among youth to educate children with intellectual disabilities. As part of the new partnership, YEDI and Special Olympics collaborated with GRS to offer malaria testing on World Malaria Day, which involved more than 2,600 attendees, including many families and individuals with intellectual disabilities.
With the help of ExxonMobil, GRS was also able to find new opportunities in 2015 to educate young people on malaria
Children at the Federal Housing Estate Primary School in Lagos, Nigeria, participate in Grassroot Soccer’s mosquito net education program.
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