SHARE has started a number of projects to help prevent specific diseases in western Kenya. These projects include control of the tsetse fly to prevent sleeping sickness, and affordable mosquito repellent and mosquito nets for malaria prevention.
We have also directed some of our efforts toward fund-raising to build a bridge to replace a causeway which has caused a severe infestation of bilharzia (schistosomiasis), a serious water-borne parasitic disease affecting over 70% of children in the Lake Area in Kenya.