Topic “uganda”
Health Child and Text To Change sms project
Health Child, Uganda is partnering with Text To Change to use sms to improve health in Jinja District. Health Messages will be sent out to communities to inform them to which health centre to go for a particular health service. On 3rd December 2009 this project was launched at Masese- Landing site Jinja district. The project was conducted with the support of IICD.
Interactive SMS campaign to fight Malaria in Ugandan Fishing Communities
To raise awareness about the world’s biggest killer, Text to Change in collaboration with the local NGO Health Child (HC), carried out a sms Quiz among rural fishing communities in Jinja on World Malaria day, yesterday April 25. Text to Change sent out multiple choice questions via sms to a database of 10,000 cell phone users from the targeted communities. TTC used its flexible mobile phone platform across the 4 major telecommunication networks in Uganda. The messages were in English and the local language Luganda and replying was for free.
Project partners
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Zain (formerly MTC) is the pioneer of mobile telecommunications in the Middle East and now a major player on the African continent. |
