SAVANNAHS/FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS: THE NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG COMMITTEE TAKES ITS PILGRIM'S STAFF

The national anti-drug committee has been in the savannahs since November 9, as part of the awareness campaign of local elected officials and students on drug problems in Togo. With the theme. He produced programs on local media, met with motorcycle taxi unions, visited drug users' care facilities, conducted awareness-raising in public schools and finally, met with local elected officials in the region on Friday, November 12 for a working session around the main theme "Mobilization of local communities for healthy communities, safe and drug-free in Togo''.

The purpose of the national committee's approach is on the one hand to support the actions of the government at the local level for the reduction of drug problems and their impacts in our country and on the other hand to enlighten young people on the risks and consequences related to the use of drugs and their derivatives on their lives. Through these different actions, he intends to share with the target some fundamental rules to keep their brains healthy and productive. At the Nassablé high school, for example, an exchange was organized with the students on the care to be given to the brain to keep it healthy. It was a step that allowed them to ask questions and have elements to properly maintain their mental health. Leading the debates, Mr. BOHM Mawouéna K., Deputy Permanent Secretary of the National Anti-Drug Committee, first explained to the students, by projection and then by presentation, the harmful consequences of drug and narcotics use on working memory.

This tour comes at the right time to support the efforts of the local authorities in the fight against this phenomenon which is growing more and more in the savannah region, especially among the young masses.

Source: https://www.rtnataan.com/savanes-lutte-contre-la-drogue-le-comite-national-anti-drogue-prend-son-baton-de-pelerin/