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  • Weekly Awesome Uganda: Volunteer Focuses-In On Pregnant Mothers Under-18

    Uganda is the world’s youngest country in the world with an average age of barely over 15 and with 77% of population below the age of 30. Uganda’s fertility rate stands at 6.7, meaning that the average woman has nearly 7 children in her lifetime.  Because of malaria’s extreme effect on pregnant mothers and children
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  • Weekly Awesome Uganda: PCV Inspires Village, Himself, while Stomping Out Malaria

    Aaron Stroud-Romero is a two-time Peace Corps Volunteer, now serving in Central Uganda.  He is an Economic Development Volunteer, focusing on Village Savings & Loans Associations in the area.  He is also the leader of the Microfinance Uganda Think-Tank. Written by Aaron Stroud-Romero I was in my fourth year of Peace Corps service and had
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  • Weekly Awesome Uganda: Volunteers & Students Smack Down Mosquitoes!

    Mary Mcalpin is an Education Volunteer and Tutor at the Primary Teachers College in Jinja Uganda.  She worked alongside her regional peers to compete in the World Malaria Month Challenge all throughout April. Written By Mary Mcalpin To heighten awareness to the very real problem of malaria, I did a fun lesson with my Year
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  • Weekly Awesome Uganda: Volunteer Empowers Student Teachers While Educating Local Youth

    Ellen Grim is an Education Volunteer, working with “Christ the King PTC,” a college for aspiring primary (elementary) school teachers.  Despite having less than 3 months at her site, she has already been very active with malaria-prevention activities.  On April 19th, she coordinated (with the assistance of 3 other Peace Corps Volunteers and the Staff
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  • Weekly Awesome: Malaria Awareness Day at The Ugandan American Partnership Organization (UAPO)

    Kathryn Carlton is a Health Volunteer living and working in Jinja, Uganda  as a staff member of The Ugandan American Partnership Organization. Written By: Kathryn Carlton Malaria is a the leading cause of death in Uganda, killing over 100,000 people every year including tens of thousands of children under the age of five. Uganda’s tropical
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  • Weekly Awesome Uganda: World Malaria Month Hits Uganda!

    During the month of April, Peace Corps Uganda LIT UP some mosquitoes.  The entire country of Volunteers stood up, jumped, and took a giant STOMP against malaria!  Volunteers competed against each  Here are some of the results: By the numbers: >80% of Volunteers participating in a malaria event in the month of April 45 Malaria
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  • Soroti World Malaria Day Event: Over 300 people tested for malaria

    On April 25th, a World Malaria Day event was held in Soroti, Eastern Uganda. The event was made possible in part by an USAID funded SPA (Small Project Assistance) Grant secured by Ashley Givan, a Response Volunteer assigned to Stop Malaria Project in Soroti (SMP).  Ashley collaborated with Soroti District Health officials and her colleagues
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  • Admiral Ziemer Visits Uganda for World Malaria Day, Launching of Universal Net Coverage in Uganda

    Peace Corps Uganda spent all of April “STOMPing Out Malaria” throughout the country. In a Peace Corps Uganda malaria activities competition between regions, Volunteers earned points for their regions through participating in various malaria activities. A few example activities are airing a malaria radio talk show, organizing or participating in a world malaria day event,
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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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  • Stop Malaria Project Interview: Benjamin Omagor

    As part of BAMM (Blog About Malaria Month) I will be featuring brief interviews with my coworkers at Stop Malaria Project (SMP) and Malaria Consortium (MC) in the Soroti office. Note: SMP is implemented by MC, which provides technical assistance to the project. Benjamin Omagor is a technical assistant employed by MC to work in
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