SAWBO Communications | Newsletter #13 | November 2015

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Dear colleagues and SAWBO friends, we are excited to share our monthly newsletter with you! In this newsletter we highlight some of the places around the world where SAWBO is making a difference, and also some of our upcoming animations. As always, please feel free to share your suggestions with us at animations@illinois.edu.

SAWBO's New Website is Live!
Take a look at our new website. SAWBO has been working hard to transform our website into a more understandable, practical, and dynamic tool to easily spread our animations to people around the world to help them improve their lives. Now it will be easier to find our animations in SAWBO's Video Library.

New Animations in our Video Library

Today we have over 500 different animations in our Video Library, with 57 different topics, in more than 90 languages variants. Here are the latest releases:

Dengue Translations from Taiwan

In collaboration with Yung Shen Shieh from the Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology we've just released our Dengue Prevention Animation in Chinese (accent from Taiwan) and Taiwanese (accent from Taiwan). Please spread this animation as far as possible to help with Taiwan's recent Dengue outbreak.

Dengue Prevention in Chinese (accent from Taiwan)
Dengue is a disease caused by a virus that is transmitted to people through the bite of female Aedes mosquitoes. This animation describes Dengue transmission, infection and the different symptoms associated with this disease.

Dengue Prevention in Taiwanese (accent from Taiwan)
This video illustrates several important preventative measures, both inside the house and the environmental sanitation around the house, to avoid being bitten by the mosquitoes. Let's all work together to stop the spread of dengue!

Mongolian Translations
The Public Health Institute of Mongolia has recently translated eleven of our animations into Mongolian. Thank you for helping us spread these animations even further!

Tuberculosis Prevention in Mongolian (accent from Mongolia)
Tuberculosis is a common infection and contagious disease caused by a bacterium that usually lodges in the lungs. TB is treatable and curable. The video illustrates some significant preventative measures to protect yourself and others from getting this disease.

Preventing Sickness in Mongolian (accent from Mongolia)
This animation contains a basic overview of microbial disease transmission concepts and basic ways to minimize such transmission. By practicing safe prevention techniques, you can reduce the chance of getting sick.

We are working on it

These are some of the projects we are working on that will be available soon in our Video Library. Please help us work faster and reach our goals. A donation of any size is greatly appreciated, and goes a long way towards ensuring the completion of these and other projects.

Sharing knowledge using the SAWBO Deployer APP
This animation will show how the SAWBO Deployer app can travel with our collaborators to help spread knowledge to many people and communities across the globe.

Healthy Eating
We are developing an animation about eating healthy foods. Healthy eating helps children and their parents live healthy lives. Healthy food fuels our bodies, and gives us the energy to make us feel good. Living a balanced life includes regular physical activity, enough sleep, and good nutrition.

Postharvest Loss: Building a Solar Dryer for Grain
Grain should always be dried before storage. A solar grain dryer can be built very inexpensively. This 3D animation will show you the supplies you need, the tools you'll use, and the steps you'll take to do so.

Links of Interest

World Health Organization Declares the End of Ebola in Sierra Leone

On November 7th, WHO declared that Ebola virus transmission had been stopped in Sierra Leone. The country has now entered a 90-day period of enhanced surveillance, which is scheduled to conclude on February 5th, 2016.

Daily Illini Interviews SAWBO
The Daily Illini newspaper has interviewed Barry Pittendrigh, Julia Bello-Bravo, and Ben Blalock about SAWBO. This article talks about how the SAWBO Deployer App helps educate people across the globe about agriculture, health and women's empowerment.

Manuele Tamò Visits SAWBO
Our collaborator Manuele Tamò (Insect Ecologist & Country Rep. IITA-Benin) recently visited SAWBO to continue his collaboration on new projects. Check out his Video Portrait to see what he does to share our animations with farmers in Benin. Thank you Manu for all your help and efforts.

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