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James Chibuye (holding mosquito net) working with Humanist Community in Garden Compound (Zambia) impregnating the nets with insecticide, December 2004

Perhaps you already know that the years 2005-2010 are dedicated in the world to fight malaria. The volunteer humanist teams in Zambia (7 councils with over 3600 participants) and in Congo (6 councils with over 1100 participants) started this project in December 2003.

They started by educating their communities about what malaria is and how they can work as a community to prevent it by covering their windows, cutting the tall grasses, filling depressions where water can stand, and cleaning up the compounds. They have also created a census of the people in the households, paying particular attention to who's pregnant and how many children under 5 years of age live in the household. They connected to the clinic in their community to propose to work together by going home with the pregnant woman and overseeing the proper administration of the malaria medication received from the doctor as well as the installation of the mosquito net that each pregnant woman receives at low cost but often sells in the market to get food.

The African Humanist volunteers have also reached out to existing NGO programs, such as World Vision, and the United Nations to be registered as an organization working in the fight against malaria and to have the credentials to work with the clinics.

Even though all of this has been going on for one year, the humanists struggle to carry out the compound cleanups because of the lack of equipment (shovels, wheelbarrows, etc) and safety for cholora prevention (rubber boots, gloves, face masks, etc.

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