Uganda: MUK Students Join Malaria Fight

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New Vision (Kampala)

4 August 2008
Posted to the web 5 August 2008

Carol Kezaabu
Kampala

The Rotaract Club of Makerere University has taken malaria fight to Muzinda village in Wakiso district.

Together with Making A Difference, a students' volunteer organisation and the Private Education Development Network, the students recently engaged residents of Muzinda in clearing bushes around their homes, digging trenches and getting rid of containers that act as breeding grounds for mosquitoes. They also distributed over 150 mosquito nets to residents.

The exercise was crowned with netball and football matches between the students and youth in the area.

Castro Kisuule, the president, said they picked on Muzinda because it had a high prevalence of malaria but limited health facilities.

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