Monrovia – The United Nations Development Programme and Emma Smith Reality show are restoring hope to hundreds of EVD Victims, a cross section of the leadership of Ebola Survivors Network that attended past Sunday Golden Gate production of Episode 2 of an advocacy communication research package has confirmed.
The Emma Smith Reality show is a UNDP funded project that will produce and broadcast fifteen editions of interactive dialogue between duty bearers and right bearers connected with post Ebola social and economic issues bordering on their livelihood.
This second episode of serialized reality show targeting a nationwide audience was tailored to project Economic recovery and policy challenges that EVD survivors, orphans and caregivers are contending with.
Both Robert Obi and Henry Tony of EVD Survivors Network as guest of the second episode of a syndicated radio and TV package, said that their members are faced with immense challenges as weak links in social and economic integration after surmounting stigmatization.
The two guests told show host Emma Smith that EVD Survivors are suspicions that people come to them and get their stories to make money and leave them in the cold.
Emma Smith allayed this fear and reassured the EVD Survivors Network leadership that working with UNDP on this project; their cardinal objective is to provide voice to EVD Survivors, widows and orphans with a view to bringing their plight to the level of policy and humanitarian attention.
Lack of medical incentive whereby EVD survivors are made to pay for medical service has been pointed out as one major policy breach that Ministry of Health must try to address.
The reality show is partly produced at the Golden Gate Auditorium, with other materials in videos and audio gathered from EVD victims and stakeholders in the counties.
The guests raised the question of 9.6 million dollars grant entrusted to the John Snowe Inc for the health needs which has not been judiciously dispensed for their membership to feel the impact.
Subsequent editions of the program is trying to gather facts related to this money allegedly entrusted to John Snowe Inc as an accountability dimension of the UNDP funded advocacy project.
The guest raised the issue of education needs of Ebola orphans or children who lost one parent to the EVD. This call resonates with most of the cries of other EVD victims in Cape Mount including Jenneh-Wonde epicenter, Bo-waterside, Tienie and environs recently covered.