News
350 mosquito bed nets distributed in Uganda!
Bundibugyo, Uganda September 2008 We have recently started a remarkable project that will have a huge impact on the lives of people in Bundibugyo, Uganda. We are providing families in this rural community with insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets to decrease the incidence of malaria.
Night time is when the highest rate of transmission occurs and people get infected with malaria. Bed nets create a protective barrier against mosquitos, but most people do not even have enough money for food, let alone the ability to buy mosquito nets or medicine for the treatment of malaria. Most of the time people remain untreated and they get malaria over and over again. The results are shocking: More than 1 million children a year are killed by malaria! In fact, malaria kills as many people as AIDS does! The good news about malaria is - is is preventable!
That is why we have distributed over 350 bed nets to crowds of women and children that gathered around our Integrity Worldwide staff member from Uganda, Timothy Bandirana. We handed out 230 nets to children and 120 to pregnant women. Our Ugandan staff also taught the excited families how to use the mosquito nets and protect themselves from mosquitos at night.
Few, if any, of the children in Bundibugyo have never slept under a bed net. Now, up to 5 children or a family of 4 can sleep under one net which provides protection from the potentially lethal mosquito bites.
Bulls for the Maasai
Meto, Kenya, September 2008 - With a wonderful thanksgiving ceremony the people of Meto welcomed two bulls that we have donated through our Kids for Kids project. For the Maasai, cattle are a symbol of wealth and an important source of income. Cattle are so much a part of their culture that an often heard greeting is, "I hope your cattle are well." A great deal of a person's life revolves around the herds: the need to pasture and care for them, the need to protect them, and the need to move with them in search of fresh pasture and water.
A couple of years ago, the Maasai, many of them tribal cattle owners, lost most of their herds during a long time of drought. Herds died and with them the Maasai's main source of income. Now, starting to rebuild their herds, it is a blessing for the community to have bulls for their breeding program. They will use the bulls to replenish their livestock which results in growing numbers of livestock and better quality herds.
Integrity Worldwide delivered over 200 chickens to members of HIV/AIDS Fellowship
Bundibugyo, Uganda 24 July 2008 - Integrity Worldwide completed the first round of distributing chickens to all 216 members of the HIV/AIDS Fellowship in Bundibugyo, Uganda. The chicken distribution program is part of Integrity Worldwide's HIV/AIDS Fellowship program that helps address the needs of some of the 22.5 million people living with AIDS in Africa. Integrity Worldwide has found that especially in Bundibugyo, Uganda there are a lot of children orphaned due to AIDS at early ages and left all alone to fend for themselves. The goal of Integrity Worldwide's chicken distribution is to help people living with AIDS take care of their families through selling eggs and meat on the markets and to address the malnutrition problems they are facing.
Integrity Worldwide has now delivered a hen to each of the Fellowship's 216 members. The chickens, donated through Integrity Worldwide's Kids for Kids program, will provide eggs and meat which supply important nutrients to help improve their overall health. The chickens can also be sold on the market for income to buy medicine and help support the Fellowship's families!
Muslims accept Christ through gift of chickens
Bundibugyo, Uganda 24 July 2008 - While the distribution of chickens continues to have great impact on the lives of the HIV/AIDS Fellowship members and their families, the gift of chickens also touched the hearts of Muslims in a life-changing way.
"The teachings I am getting from the HIV/AIDS Fellowship have totally changed my life; the Lord answered my prayers in the fellowship", said Kilolo, a Muslim helping Integrity Worldwide Uganda staff members supplying the chickens. Our staff members report, that Kilolo could not believe that Integrity Worldwide fulfilled the promises made to help the HIV/AIDS Fellowship. He tells us that his life has changed through the love he has seen from all the people donating money to Integrity Worldwide's program. "This love that forces people to give money to a person who is regarded as a sinner in the area we live in, this love is not yet known to unbelievers." The love he is talking about is the love of Jesus Christ that he and his family have accepted into their lives!