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Bicycles donated to Ugandan community health workers |
Village health team members (VHTs) from 43 communities in Iyolwa, a sub-county in eastern Uganda, received brand new bicycles this month thanks to our recent fundraising campaign. Malaria Consortium launched the campaign earlier this year to provide these trained community health workers with a bicycle so that they can reach more people who may need their help.
Our fundraisers raised enough money to buy and deliver 43 bicycles, providing the volunteer community health workers with an invaluable means of transport in places where communities are harder to reach and children, who are particularly vulnerable to life-threatening diseases such as diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia, may require urgent treatment.
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Malaria Consortium would like to thank all the generous donors to this campaign who made the purchase and delivery of these bicycles possible. They really will help save lives. |
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Photo story: follow the bikes from start to finish
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 | | Since Malaria Consortium received the funds, the bicycles were procured locally to ensure replacements and extra parts can easily be found on the market. They were then assembled in the capital Kampala and further transported to the east of Uganda, where they were handed over to a group of enthusiastic community health workers... >> Follow the bikes to their final destination
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Meet the village health team members |
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Achieng Ezeres, VHT at Ngetta A village |
“I am so grateful for the new bicycle, I am going to look after it very well because it makes our lives as village health team members much, much easier.” |
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Wiberforce Oketch, VHT at Nambogo A village |
“I am very happy at this time to be a village health team member. It is truly rewarding and gives me pride. I am going to reach the patients faster. I now even have my own transport that I can use to bring a patient to the health centre if I have to.” |
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