Some local volunteers were illiterate, making registration and accuracy more difficult.
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Yumbe was a difficult location to access, making distribution a challenge that the volunteers and staff of the Malaris Consortium rose to.
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Counts of children under five and their sleeping spaces are especially important because one child in Africa dies of Malaria every 30 seconds.
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Pregnant women as well as children are at highest risk of death from malaria.
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Accurate population estimates were difficult to obtain in this remote region of Yumbe, Uganda.
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This baby has a much greater chance of surviving to his fifth birthday if he sleeps beneath a LLIN (Long lasting insecticide-treated net). Twenty-nine percent of children in this area die before they turn five.
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The Malaria Consortium Uganda received 40,000 nets from Against Malaria to help keep young children, like this one and their families from contracting malaria while they sleep.
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Young families will especially benefit from the new nets, helping the babies and toddlers here to live a malaria free life.
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Distribution of nets was achieved with pick up as well as dump trucks.
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Remote villages in Yumbe receive so little medical care that prevention of malaria is the key to heath.
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Enough children to fill seven jumbo jets a day die of malaria each day. Prevention with bednets is one key to the cure.
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Many children sleep on the floor in Uganda, making it essential that sleeping spaces are covered by nets, not just beds.
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Enlisting local support was crucial to the success of the program.
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Living conditions are primitive in Uganda.
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in Yumbe, the villagers are self sufficient, but without medical care.
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Registration involved population counts to ensure that enough nets were delivered to each household.
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Sleeping spaces were in a variety of locations in Yumbe and Moyo where the nets were targeted to be distributed over a 10 day period.
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Yumbe had a mixture of different materials for buildings, but none can keep away deadly mosquitoes.
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Old (and ineffective!) bednet. Insecticidal treated bednets give double protection by providing both physical and chemical barriers.
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Nets had to be aired out before use
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Net delivery systems use all forms of transportation!
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Delivering a net in Yumbe region, Uganda.
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Demonstrations in how to properly set up and use nets were held at every distribution point.
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Village members learn how to properly hang nets.
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After participating in orientation, this women take her bednet home to set up.
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Volunteers sit together after planning for the distribution.
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A young girl excitedly hangs out her net before use to air it out.
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This young woman is one of the lucky 71% who survived past the age of five in this village.
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