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  • Weekly Awesome Zambia: All You Wanted To Know About Raising Mosquitoes

    By: PCRV David Meeske David previously served in Malawi as an Education Peace Corps Volunteer and is in Zambia working with Zambia Integrated Services Strengthening Program (ZISSP) as Peace Corps Response Volunteer.  His work involves updating the databases on health information that can be shared with partners throughout Zambia. So you ask, just how does
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  • Volunteers Give Skill-Based Education in Net Repair

    Peace Corps Volunteers are scrappy, innovative, and willing to make time—even when none technically exists—to make a difference in their community.  Over the past month of malaria activities, Volunteers utilized their flexibility, language and cultural skills, and ability to stretch limited resources to extend life-saving malaria messages to millions of Ugandans. Robin and Aaron Rentrope’s
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  • Weekly Awesome Zambia: Investing in the Future

    By: PCV Katherine McAuley, PC/Zambia As a recently new Peace Corps Volunteer here in Zambia, my life as Katherine McAuley from California has been turned up-side-down—in a good way, that is. Dizzy with so much cultural adjustments I found that interacting with the youth in my village and at the school gets me grounded. Peace Corps
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  • Cameroon’s Post-World Malaria Day Report

    Here’s a snapshot of some World Malaria Day activities in Cameroon: The big World Malaria Day concert at the Palais du Sport was a big success! More than twenty PCVs and several staff members attended and thoroughly enjoyed it. Imoite will write more on this later but wants everyone to check out the new K.O.
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  • Weekly Awesome Zambia: Malaria Madness Month in Northern Province

    Northern Province in Zambia is not only the largest in land mass, but it has one of the highest malaria rates in the country, with about 480 people per 1000 diagnosed with malaria each month.  Peace Corps volunteers in Northern, from all programming sectors of health, education, agriculture and aquaculture resolved to reduce malaria cases
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  • Weekly Awesome Guinea: New Volunteer wastes no time to start stomping out malaria

    During the month of April, the newest group of volunteers in Guinea was among the most active in educating and protecting their communities against malaria. One standout was Public Health Volunteer Alexa Gudelsky, from Cincinatti, Ohio. “I wanted to be a PCV since high school, and I wanted to do health work, but I thought
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  • Weekly Awesome Guinea: Taking a malaria minute

    By: PCV Alanna Murphy, PC/Guinea Today’s post is from Peace Corps Guinea Education Volunteer Alanna Murphy, from Laguna Beach, CA, who teaches English to middle and high school students in the region of Mandiana in Haute Guinée (Upper Guinea). Alanna’s stage, G22, arrived in Guinea in July 2012. In April, Alanna completed dozens of malaria activities,
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  • Weekly Awesome Guinea: Developing Malaria Lesson Plans

    By: PCV Sarah Reid, PC/Guinea Sarah Reid is a Peace Corps Education Volunteer from Richmond, Virginia. She is currently finishing her two years of service as a Chemistry teacher in the Fouta region of Guinea. Today, she writes for us about her work with her 7th-10th grade students, teaching them the value of malaria prevention.
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  • Weekly Awesome Guinea: Soccer, theater, and art brings a community together to fight malaria

    Dante Bugli is a Peace Corps Volunteer working in the Education sector in Guinea, hailing from Detroit, Michigan. In addition to a dedicated teacher, Dante is a Regional Malaria Coordinator for Peace Corps Guinea, organizing the efforts of 9 other volunteers in the prefectures of Kindia and Dubreka in addition to putting on malaria events
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  • Weekly Awesome Guinea: Stomp Guinea takes flight, 85% of Volunteers participate in World Malaria Day activities

    An important part of my service here in Guinea has been my involvement with a Peace Corps initiative called Stomp Out Malaria. STOMP is a Peace Corps program designed to harness the strengths of Volunteers on the ground with regard to malaria work. In Peace Corps Africa posts, members of the STOMP team work to
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