ZTV joins Ebola Education Fund

ZTV Ghana, a wholly owned Ghanaian television station, has pledged its support to the Ebola Education Fund.

The station will be broadcasting events and activities associated with the Ebola Education Fund as its contribution to the fund.

The station aims to develop good quality informative, educative and entertaining programmes for viewers to identify with content, style and presentation.

Located at Tse Addo behind Trade Fair, at Fire Junction within the Goil fuel filling station, ZTV is currently on Multi TV Digi box and Strong Decoders. Its signals are therefore received throughout the ten regions of Ghana, and within countries like Nigeria, Liberia, Kenya and Angola.

The Ebola Education Fund, an initiative of the Business and Financial Times (B&FT), Dalex Finance and UNICEF, seeks to raise money from the private sector for a nationwide educational campaign on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

The campaign seeks to enlighten the public on preventive measures and symptoms, as well as how to handle suspected cases of the deadly disease.

The nationwide education will be carried on radio and television as well as in newspapers and via mobile phone text messages, posters and handbills.

The fund’s initial aim GH¢1million, and it is expected to be raised from organisations and individuals that do not engage in activities detrimental to public health -- such as child labour, manufacture and sale of tobacco products, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, manufacture and sale of baby-foods.

Dalex Finance has already injected GH¢100,000 as seed-money for the fund. Sec-Point Ghana, a leading commercial printing firm in the country, has donated posters and flyers valued at GH¢50,000.