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Being a Peace Corps Volunteer so often means helping to connect your rural, isolated village to outside resources – helping to increase their access. Combating malaria in my area, for example, was as simple as creating access to mosquito nets – already being sold en masse by PSI (see clean drinking water page for more info) and at a subsidized cost affordable for the country’s poorest, but all but unbeknownst to my isolated village. I found out quickly, through village meetings and other rapid-rural appraisal methods, that people were, for the most part, educated on the causes, symptoms, ill-effects, and prevention of malaria – including that sleeping under an impregnated net is key to preventing bites from the dusk-til-dawn malaria-carrying mosquito. They just didn’t know how, where, or for how much to get them.


Click here to read about the distribution of mosquito nets in our village and the widespread impact on community health this project has had.


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