Thousands of communities around the world struggle to provide their members with basic access to health care and services. Though we hope to expand our work to several of these areas, our current project addresses the needs of those in the greater region of Mbarara, Uganda. Particularly problematic to this community is the high incidence of malaria. In fact, in 2003 alone, 487,926 cases of malaria were recorded in the Greater Mbarara area, which has a population of about 1,000,000 people.

The community that I am helping through participating in CURTIS Week is Bridgeport, CT. I worked directly with various diverse populations. Some of the problems addressed in working with these populations included homelessness, opressed and underserved, those in need of company and compassion. I, along with other students from my school worked with a local family to build their own home with Habitat for Humanity. I cooked food and served food at several soup kitchens in the area and even had the experience of speaking to members of the community who were in need of a hot meal.

Lulwanda Children's Home, to me, is home away from home. This summer, I spent three weeks as a missionary from my church, evangelizing and teaching basic hygiene to the villagers of Mbale, Uganda. This was the greatest experience of my life. The children of Uganda have taught me the most valuable lessons one could ever learn. Unconditional love, patience, happiness, and humility.

youth activist club is basicaly a place for our youth to talk to eachother about things that would normaly not be up for discussion in your classroom with your parents in a church or even with your friends. no topic is off limits. opinions are everything and we will learn as a group to chanell healthy energy and express ourselves with non-violence and self expression through all ways posible including special talents. singing dancing rapping acting writing poetry. the sky is the limit.

When in grammer school i had my very first boyfriend. After we graduated we still remained very close friends. Our sophomore year in high school he died of AIDS. It had turned out he was very sexually active when we were younger. He never looked sick at all. His mother didnt even no. He was too scared to get tested. Lucky for me we never had sex but those he did never had a clue until they died an unfornately a few of those ladies did contract the virus. This bothered me because even though he was my best friend i was mad he didnt care enough about himself or others to get tested.