Different awareness programs were provided to Hawassa Industrial Park workers starting from End of January by the Investors Association. Some of the major ones are as follows:
- Coordinating with EPHI team, regional health bureau health and Hawasssa city administration health department representatives several physical trainings were given to the workers in their respective factories.Workers,HRs,Nurses were trained.
- The trainings were given to all 22 companies that exist in the park in various sessions.
- Audio awarness is being provided through the Park FM Radio – Audio content was donated to us by the John Hopkins University
- Several awareness material (using WHO and MOH guidelines) has been distributed to workers in three rounds
- Total amount of awareness material distributed was 90,000 brochures of various kinds of awareness messages
- A community outreach in collaboration with Investors Association, IPDC and Enterprise partners was conducted in 10 sub-city of Hawassa where most of the park workers lives.
- The Hawassa Industrial Park Investors Association had distributed 35,000 anti bacterial soaps to all workers in the park on May 7th 2020
- The Hawassa Industrial Park Investors Association donated faced masks with a cost of 600,000ETB to both Hawassa City Administration and SNNPR on 21st May 2020.
