Maundo Sere Project

The Adopt A Village project in Maundo Sere, Uganda, as with all AAV projects, addresses issues influencing health, hunger, and education. The project is managed by the Tororo Rotary Club, working with the Maundo village council. International partners are the Rotary Clubs of Springfield (lead club), Southtowne, Mid-Valley, Cottage Grove, Florence, Myrtle Point and Bandon. The $30,000 grant addresses major health and nutrition problems that touch every family in Maundo, a village of 2500 people in Southeastern Uganda. As with other villages in East Central Africa, Maundo is threatened in ways that are more extreme than in the past, with life expectancy dropping dramatically over the past twenty years.

The project has supplied sources of clean water, two ponds for fish farming, mosquito control through habitat abatement and furnishing mosquito nets to families with children under five, and simple fuel- efficient stoves to reduce forest denuding and health problems associated with smoke. Rotarians from the Tororo Uganda Club provided training in sanitation and mosquito control.