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  • Weekly Awesome Mozambique: Malaria Work in the Community with Taylor, Joe and Patrick

    For World Malaria Day, Health Volunteer Taylor Morsillo worked with her REDES (Peace Corps Mozambique’s “Girls in Development, Education and Health” Empowerment Program) group in Zavala, Inhambane province to create a 10-minute theater piece about malaria, highlighting topics such as risks of sleeping without a bednet, proper net usage, recognizing malaria symptoms, and early detection
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  • Weekly Awesome Mozambique: Radio Fun with Alden and Olivia

    Alden Jacobs and Olivia Drouhaut are Health Volunteers in Chibuto, Gaza Province. They used the skills they learned from a training on the open-source audio-editing program Audacity to create a minute-long radio spot in Portuguese to promote bednet usage in their community. The spot is currently running intermittently throughout the day on 103.5 Chibuto Community
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  • Weekly Awesome Mozambique: Spotlight on Youth Activities and Malaria Prevention with Wendy, Mary-Kate and Colleen

    Most Peace Corps Mozambique Volunteers are involved in some form of activity with youth, whether it’s through teaching, placements with organizations that focus on youth outreach, or with secondary projects like REDES (Peace Corps Mozambique’s “Girls in Development, Education and Health” Empowerment Program) or JUNTOS (Peace Corps Mozambique’s “Youth United in the Work for Opportunities
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  • Weekly Awesome Mozambique: Spotlight on Malaria in the Classroom with Gina, Annie, and Shay

    Education is the largest sector in Peace Corps Mozambique with over 60% of Volunteers working in this sector. Integrating health education into lessons can be difficult, but many Volunteers make it a priority to tackle health topics along with their lectures. Newly sworn in Peace Corps Volunteer, Gina Moore, found fun ways to integrate malaria
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  • Weekly Awesome Mozambique: Training of Trainers in Inhambane Province

    On May 17th, nine Peace Corps Volunteers and eleven Mozambican counterparts convened in Maxixe, Inhambane for a training of trainers on malaria prevention, treatment, and strategies for successfully communicating with families about malaria. Organized by Stomp Out Malaria Mozambique Coordinator Kyla Johnson and facilitated by Matteus Fernando from PIRCOM Mozambique (the Inter-Religious Program Against Malaria),
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  • “To living with, living with… not dying from disease!”

    By PCV Heather Pittard 11 April 2013 Watch this: Malaria, A History Lesson We’re approaching International Malaria Day (April 25) and there is a competition between nations who can blog most about malaria.  Interesting approach to start the conversation, huh? Even though my blog is private for only my family and friends, some of you
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  • Promoting Volunteerism and Malaria-Prevention Through School Rehabilitation in Zambezia

    Modeling a previous successfully implemented activity, PCV Dylan Yosick worked with student volunteers to execute a massive school rehabilitation project to help prevent malaria infection in the Alto Molocue district of Zambezia, Mozambique.  Over 200 window screens and doors were rehabilitated or installed, and lemongrass was planted around the perimeter of the school, acting as
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  • Stomp Mozambique Starts the Year Off Right!

    After a short break over the holidays, Mozambique is back at work stomping out malaria!  On February 1st, 39 education volunteers got a chance to show off their creative skills by learning how to make malaria-related radio spots using the open-source sound editing software called Audacity. During their mid-service conference, Volunteers brainstormed ways that community radio and
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  • Stomp Mozambique Team Shares Knowledge with New Health Volunteers

    During the recent Reconnect In-Service Training, the 18th group of volunteers to serve in Mozambique (colloquially called “Moz 18”) participated in an invaluable training that enables them to stomp out malaria in Mozambique. 3rd year Volunteers and Stomp Coordinators Kyla Johnson and Scooter “Anata” Walsh presented sessions about malaria in pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and malaria co-infection,
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  • Peace Corps Volunteer Helps Fight HIV/AIDS and Malaria Co-Infection in Gaza Province

      Recognizing the need to ensure a safe, comfortable learning space for students in a district plagued by a high prevalence of HIV infection and high rates of malaria infection, Education Volunteer Ali Wolters launched a project that joined existing community organizations in the fight against HIV/AIDS and Malaria co-infection in the district of Guijá, Gaza
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