Practical exercise
Household standing water sweep, dengue edition
Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that carries dengue, breeds in clear standing water no bigger than a bottle cap. One forgotten flower pot saucer, one rooftop tank lid left open, one pile of broken pottery in the back gali, and your whole street has dengue by September. Punjab gets 30,000 to 50,000 cases a year. Today you walk every corner of your house and yard, find every bit of standing water, and fix it. Photograph each fix.
Now try it
Household standing water sweep, dengue edition
Stretch
Walk the gali outside your gate with a parent and a black plastic bag. Pick up the top five water-holding pieces of trash you see (cups, wrappers, broken matkas) and bin them. Photograph the gali before and after. This is small, but the Aedes mosquito flies less than 200 metres in its life; cleaning your own gali is the most direct dengue prevention you can do.
Goes into your portfolio
A folder of twelve before-after photo pairs from your house, the Sunday repeating calendar reminder screenshot, and a one paragraph note listing which item was the worst breeding risk in your home and what you did about it.