Bundibugyo, Uganda September 2008 We have recently started a remarkable project that will have a huge impact on the lives of people in Bundibugyo, Uganda. We are providing families in this rural community with insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets to decrease the incidents of malaria.
Night time is when the highest rate of transmission occurs and people get infected with malaria. Bed nets create a protective barrier against mosquitoes, but most people do not even have enough money for food, let alone the ability to buy mosquito nets or medicine for the treatment of malaria. Most of the time people remain untreated and they get malaria over and over again. The results are shocking: More than 1 million children a year are killed by malaria! In fact, malaria kills as many people as AIDS does! The good news about malaria is – is is preventable!
That is why we have distributed over 350 bed nets to crowds of women and children that gathered around our Integrity Worldwide staff member from Uganda, Timothy Bandirana. We handed out 230 nets to children and 120 to pregnant women. Our Ugandan staff also taught the excited families how to use the mosquito nets and protect themselves from mosquitos at night.
