COVID-19 24/7 Parenting Resources in 70 Languages

Parenting for Lifelong Health provides open-access online parenting resources during COVID-19. These tip sheets are available in 70 languages.

The tip sheets cover the following topics:

  1. Keeping children safe online
  2. Family budgeting in times of financial stress
  3. Family harmony at home
  4. Learning through Play
  5. When we get angry
  6. Crowded homes and communities
  7. One-on-one time
  8. Keeping it positive
  9. Structure Up
  10. Bad behavior
  11. Keep calm and manage stress
  12. Talking about COVID-19

Source: Parenting for Lifelong Health

Date of Publication: July 21, 2020

Toolkit for Understanding Lockdown

This toolkit was developed in collaboration with the Department of Health to inform the public about the regulations for lockdown in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes PSAs, scripts for the PSAs, and a set of posters.

The materials in the toolkit include:

MaterialLanguages
DablapMeds/CCMDD PSAs
Campaign Week 2 Radio Campaign Scripts in English
  1. Why lockdown, screening and testing, social distancing and regulations for COVID 19
  2. Lock down and house to house screening for COVID-19 symptoms
  3. Non- compliance of wearing mask , maintaining social distance and collection of medication at health facilities
  4. Patients with chronic conditions can access medication through CCMDD/ DablapMeds & Non – compliance of regulations

PSAs about Lockdown
Scripts about Lockdown
Scripts about Masks
Scripts – FAQs
Scripts about
Myths and Misinformation
Posters about Dablapmeds

This flyer and poster advertise a special medicine delivery service that delivers medicines closer to where people live so that they do not have to come to a pharmacy and can practice physical distancing.

The message states:

The best thing for your health is social distancing during COVID-19. If you are on CCMDD and still collecting at a facility, ask your nurse to register you to collect at an external pick-up point closer to you.

Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Centre for Communication Impact

Date of Publication: July 21, 2020

Health Phone [Videos, Website]

HealthPhone™ is a personal video reference library and guide to better health and nutrition practices, for families and communities, including the illiterate, in their language, distributed on mobile phones.

HealthPhone™ provides families with their own personal reference library and guide to better health practices. Available in real time, right to those who need it, when they need it and when a health problem is about to strike, where they are, and as they are.

There is no signal or connection required. HealthPhone’sover 1,400 health and nutrition videos are available on the following topics:

  • Timing of Pregnancy
  • Births
  • Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health
  • Child Development and Early Learning
  • Breastfeeding
  • Nutrition and Growth, Immunization
  • Diarrhea
  • Coughs, Colds and More Serious Illnesses
  • Hygiene
  • Malaria
  • HIV
  • Child Protection
  • Injury Prevention
  • Emergencies: preparedness and response

This knowledge, in 61 languages, is pre-loaded on microSD chips for popular low-cost models of mobile phones – no signal is required, nor cost to download videos and other media. Users choose what they want to watch and listen to and when, wherever they happen to be.

Source: HealthPhone

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019