It's humanitarian; it's selfless and grassroot oriented. Aids Crisis Response Team (ACRT) have done a wonderful job from counselling to testing and offering drugs to HIV positive people. Beside other great gestures by this wonderful team, they have plans to establish a permanent contact with the volunteering youths comprising of NAKOSS Comrades, EbiraView and Ebira Opete TV crew while tasking the team to do more in researh work across the community to identify the people who need help most.On Saturday, 12th July the team were in Obagende where about 60 students received the HIV test before heading to Ege community of Adavi LG. While in Ege, the community troop to welcome the team. Drugs were offered to people with various kind of ailments beside encouraging the villagers on being useful to themselves through farming and other trades. A woman received a cash gift from the team before heading to Idi-chatta area of Okene where they met a boy with a special deformity that triggers epiletic shock. His case was beyond cure but the team advised that people show love and care to the helpless boy until the last of his days. Gifts were handed to the kids in the area.
Moday, the 14th of July, the team met with the staff of Okene Local Governmnent. The meeting was brief due to the absense of the Caretaker committee chairman. Some of the LG staff did the HIV test, granting interview to Ebira Opete TV show and Terry Sebastian calling on the community members to check their status to safeguard their health...more update soon.
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