Dear Colleagues

It is good that you have been able to obtain bednets ... or is it mosquito curtains ... for use against malaria in Busukuma. I hope they will work, and help to reduce the burden of malaria in your community.

My study of malaria control over the past few years suggests that bednets will help the persons using the bednets ... but do almost nothing for everyone else in the community. This is better than nothing, but not a full solution by any means.

Hey Debbie-if they get back to you, you might ask if there is any way that they would be willing to provide training to members of the Kagulu community. That could look one of two ways (or maybe both):

1. They go to Kagulu and conduct the training themselves for the local community, or

2. Some members of the Kagulu community come to them in Kamuli for a "train the trainer" type of experience if possible, so they can then take the information back to the local community and pass it on.

Resources would also be great!

Thanks for your efforts-very much appreciated!

Jennifer

Malaria No More has multiple resources and documents posted to their website to help with Malaria education as well as age specific tools that can be used with children. These are located here:

http://www.malarianomore.org/get_involved/tools.php

Carolyn-

Thanks for your questions-I sent Fred the link to your message via SMS, so hopefully he'll be able to get online, have a look and respond himself.

Based on what I know so far, with regard to Malaria, my understand is that there are no resources whatsoever in the local community existing at the present time. It sounds like literally the only time that there is any health education is within the school system and they very much want to change that to impact the community as a whole.

Hi everyone-

I was able to meet with Fred again today as well as 14 members of the Kagulu community. We talked a little bit about health awareness campaigns for Malaria and HIV/AIDS. The community believes that Malaria is their biggest health concern at this time due to it being rainy season.

They have received the information that I sent them about strategic planning/business planning. There was a problem with electricity so they were not able to print it and take it back to the local community. I offered to summarize and send it in an email message instead.

Here is a summary from my chat with Christopher earlier this morning-

BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL:

Unfortunately, Fred and I were not able to connect again this weekend. We apparently just missed each other. I was here for several hours updating another village very early this morning and waiting for Fred. I kept checking for him online both here and at Yahoo. I never saw him. He sent me a message and said that he arrived at the Internet cafe late and the computer was busy. Once he was able to get online, he tried to contact me via the chat in the Kagulu village, but this is still not working properly since the new Nabuur website was implemented, so I did not know he was there.