School of Professional Counseling Raises Money to Fight Malaria in Uganda

LWC Associate Professor of Human Services and Counseling Daniel Williamson holds
a facsimile check from LWC School of Professional Counseling to
Uganda Counseling and Support Services.

COLUMBIA, Ky. -- Students, faculty and staff in the Lindsey Wilson College School of Professional Counseling sold t-shirts to help fight malaria in Africa.

The students held a t-shirt drive this spring and summer that raised $1,870. The money was donated to the Uganda Counseling and Support Services, which is directed by LWC alumnus Ronald Kaluya.

To raise the money, LWC students and staff sold more than 1,990 t-shirts at the college's 25 community campuses in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

The shirts sold for $15 each or two for $25.

"At least $5 from each shirt goes toward malaria prevention," said Jennifer Williamson, LWC associate professor of human services and counseling and director of the LWC Institute for Advanced Study. "Five dollars will buy one immunization, prophylactic malaria treatment or mosquito net. So for each t-shirt, we can prevent malaria in one person."

The Uganda Counseling and Support Services is a non-profit social-justice organization that focuses on providing access to education, safe water, medical care and improved farming in the impoverished East African nation.

Members of the LWC School of Professional Counseling present a facsimile check to
Uganda Counseling and Support Services Chair John B. Begley. From left: Kim Brown
of LWC-Cumberland (Ky.) Community Campus; Jennifer Williamson, LWC associate
professor of human services and counseling and director of the LWC Institute for
Advanced Study; Jennifer Brooks, LWC-Ashland, Ky.; Ann Ratliff-Hylton, LWC-Richlands,
Va.; Begley; Daniel Williamson, LWC associate professor of human services and
counseling; Suzie Mills, LWC-London, Ky.; Tonia Marcum, LWC-Logan, W.Va.; Dorinda
Livesay, LWC-Scottsville, Ky.; and Billie Robinson, LWC-Hazard, Ky.