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.
Read more in the press release:
Read more in the press release:
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