[HOT] kindly guide me ...........

[john whelan]

Uganda has a fairly reasonable map at present.  There have been some thirty
HOT projects in there and a few imports.  There are some 3,000 untagged
ways to be cleaned up, I might have a look at them shortly.  Jiggers sound
a bit like the Neglected Topical Diseases or NTDs which have been
identified as having a disproportionate impact.  Dig round and you'll find
organisations that are dealing with the problem.  Talk nicely to them and
see how they are tackling them.

My suspicion would be wearing shoes would reduce the impact substantially.
Getting suitable footwear to the right place at the right cost is a
logistics problem.  Education about how to avoid and to treat them might
help.

OpenStreetMap is more designed to map permanent features.  Jiggers sounds
more as if it is transient.  So mark on a map where cases are reported and
have some sort of communication system that sends out an alert when the
problem is more pressing.  Adding this to an existing infrastructure would
be simpler and cheaper and the ideal place would be Uganda's public health
service however I suspect that Uganda's public health system is not well
funded as it could be.  This I suspect needs more education and long term
political movement, a realisation that health care brings economic benefits.

Not a perfect solution I'm afraid.

Cheerio John

On 2 August 2017 at 12:41, Anna N <schools.agents at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi?
>
> Kindly guide me on how i can make a project to save lives in my region
> where people seasonally get attacked by jiggers ,my idea is to formulate an
> organization with a project to map [design a map] of central eastern Uganda
> which has six district as a victimized place which usually gets every one
> in the area attacked by jiggers. If the maps are designed the kingdom can
> always be vigilant on mobilizing the other tribes mates outside Uganda and
> able to fund treatment / prevention of the disastrous though funny disease .
>
> As a volunteer i see sense in the idea with your guidance ,thank you so
> much
>
> *N**abirye * *A*nnette Atugonza
> BMTL Uganda.
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