New search facility for rabies educational resources

Major improvements have been made to the education bank pages of the World Rabies Day website. A new search facility now helps users to locate rabies prevention posters, lesson plans and presentations in a wide variety of languages in a much more user-friendly way. The facility can be used in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese.

Material is now arranged by geographical area and by target audience, so that a search can be narrowed down to find the most appropriate resources for a rabies prevention campaign or educational initiative. The pages can also be searched by key words.  For example, if  someone is planning a World Rabies Day initiative aimed at schools in Francophone Africa, they can search all the available French language materials for schools or simply for French language materials suitable for use in Africa.

The changes to the educational resource pages are part of a move to make the materials more accessible to people working in specific parts of the world or in a particular field of rabies prevention. The World Rabies Day team welcomes feedback, particularly from people in areas with lower bandwidth or difficulty in accessing resources, to ensure as many people as possible are able to benefit from the material. 

Peter Costa, World Rabies Day Co-ordinator, said, “Rabies education is saving lives, and our goal is to provide as many resources as possible to as many people as possible across all levels  of society.”

If you have developed educational material and would like to share it with others in the fight against rabies, please send it to [email protected]. The World Rabies Day team is actively seeking new material in all languages, including local and minority languages, and sees the education bank as an ongoing, dynamic development. 

Contributed by Jane Coutts, a member of the World Rabies Day team, and the African Outreach Officer for GARC. The pages can be accessed at http://rabiesalliance.org/resources/