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Get Involved
If you witness or know of a lightning injury or damage event in Africa, please report it to us. Not all incidents make the newspaper, so we welcome 'Citizen Reporters'. Please add your comments on the form below - we're still working out the bugs in it to make it most useful. - Or e-mail macooper@uic.edu with more details.
Lightning Strike and Electric Shock Survivors International support group
Ludwig Family FoundationLudwig Family Foundation has awarded ACLENet a $99,908 grant to protect 3 model schools in Uganda that will offer lightning safety education to teachers, students, parents and local officials in their districts. It will also allow us to decrease the cost of lightning protection for schools by assembling a list of locally sourced materials to avoid expensive imports and to design a set of lightning protection 'templates' for typical school buildings instead of designing each one separately. The Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports has helped by giving us the architectural plans for the new schools they are building and several experienced lightning protection specialists have volunteered their help as well.
