Keep Earth, Keep Health

The harmattan season is the period when the rooms are cold, people dive under the cover, move about in sweatshirts, head warmers, boots and other cold protective wears. It is a time of stress for shopkeepers having their stores especially in open spaces such as those along the roadsides. People wake up to wetting the grounds, wiping off dusts on every items in homes, vehicles and offices. Harmattan is the cool dry wind that blows from the northeast or east in the Sahara picking large amount of fine dusts and sand particles as it passes over the Sahara and are then transported hundreds of kilometers towards the Atlantic Ocean. The name is related to the word ‘ harmatta ’ in Twi language, a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana as well as southeastern Cote D’Ivoire. Harmattan blows during the dry season causing the air temperature to fall, in most places, to as low as 9°C, but can be hot in certain places, soaring to as high as 30°C in the afternoon ...

Health is the state of being free of physical or psychological disease, illness or malfunction or simply the general condition of body and mind. Environment refers to all that is external to human body. These components are the physical, chemical, biological, socio-economic and cultural factors of the environment individually and in combination affect human health and well-being. The natural environment encompasses of living and non-living thing occurring naturally, meaning things that are not artificial. This environment encompasses the interaction of all living species, climate, weather and natural resources that affect human survival and economic activity. Since the earliest time, humans have needed to be sensitive to their surroundings to survive, which means that we have an innate awareness of our environment and seek out environments with certain qualities. Naturally humans seek an environment where they can have access to clean air, abundant water, sufficient f...