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EBOLA - One year commemoration

On Monday 23rd March, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will launch the global 'Words Against Ebola' campaign, to mark the one-year commemoration of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

The campaign website http://www.wordsagainstebola.org will allow users to share information about Ebola across their social media channels.

We encourage you to help us kick-start the campaign by:

1. Sharing your kick-start selfie. Ask your team and followers to take a picture with one of the #WordsAgainstEbola signs and post on social media. You can find the kick start signs here in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

2. Re-skinning your social media platforms with the campaign look and feel

3. Sharing your ideas on the microsite http://wordsagainstebola.org.

4. Sharing the campaign video pledge also available on the microsite in four languages

5. Asking your volunteers and followers to upload their own videos on YouTube by using the hashtag of the campaign. Please see the Red Cross Supporter / Delegate engagement letter template.

The communication package for the campaign and the one-year commemoration contains

• Key messages and facts and figures

• Press release

• Letters to editors

• Op-Ed

Additional material for the one-year commemoration will be available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic

• Questions and answers

• Responder profiles and photos

• Survivor profiles and photos

• Web stories and photos