The urban area around Malindi offers malaria mosquitoes numerous man-made breeding sites: potholes, open streams and stagnant pools caused by blocked canals. Swimming pools in hotel facilities that are not used during the rainy season present further breeding sites close to the dwellings of affected people. What is most important is that those affected are informed (special malaria- info-events) about the danger presented by these stagnant bodies of water as breeding sites for the malaria mosquito. For this reason, local key people are trained to become so-called „Mosquito- Scouts. They are charged with an important responsibility, namely to guarantee the active participation of the population in sustainably controlling malaria. Stagnant pools of water are dried out in community work. Where this is not possible, the pools are treated with an environmentally safe bacteria (Bti, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis), to decimate the mosquitoes in the larval stage. Impregnated bed nets are distributed to those groups particularly at risk from malaria (mothers and small children). When used correctly, these mosquito nets provide the safest protection from malaria transmitting mosquito bites.