What im doing in Uganda

So for those of you who dont know, i am leaving this fall for Kyabirwa village to volunteer at a health clinic that works to help treat and prevent malaria. Kyabirwa is located in the Bujigali Falls region of Southern Uganda, close to Lake Victoria, Tanzania, and the famed White Nile Rivah!!!!

The Soft Power Health Clinic was started by Dr. Jessie Stone was started in 2004 to provide education, prevention and treatment of Malaria in rural Uganda. Jessie is a whitewater kayaker with team Jackson Kayaks who originally went to Uganda to kayak, and was stunned at the lack of health care, and the impact of malaria (a highly treatable disease) on the local populations. In response, and as a way to give back, Jessie decided to open a health clinic.

Volunteers such as myself will be traveling to local villages to distribute mosquito nets, helping to teach education courses, and distribute meds. Soft Power Health is a non-profit organization, and volunteers with SPH are responsable for all their own costs, as well as a $75/week donation to cover transportation costs, which is why i was trying to raise funds this summer, to finance both my trip and the clinic.

Jessie's clinic has been enormously sucessful, selling over 20,000 mosquito nets as of August, 2007, and has started branching out to provide family planning.

For more on SPH, check out www.softpowerhealth.org