Children helping children

Children helping children

June 3, 2017

Recently friends and family gathered to celebrate a young girl’s 9th birthday in Kingston, ON.

Now, you would expect a young lady of 9 to have a long list of gifts and goodies she wanted as gifts, barbie dolls, the latest fasions, hair accessories, an iPad even.

But not this exceptional girl. She wanted only ONE gift, and she wanted the same gift from everyone. All she asked for was donations to be made to Buy-a-Net to help the children in Uganda in their fight against malaria.

Our young “net raiser” donated several hundred dollars to Buy-a-Net.

Malaria is common to sub-tropical climates and geographical locations. Many villages have standing and stagnant water which attracts mosquitos. The people that live in these small, isolated villages have no outside influences to educate and inform them about malaria and how to prevent it.

The Ugandan government is part of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) initiative which is supported by the World Health Organization. They are working to educate and support their people with various programs but have limited resources to tackle disease, and they need our help. Community workers are a critical part of the model of disease prevention at Buy-a-Net.

The bad news about malaria
Malaria is a disease that is spread through the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito.

Malaria is a global health crisis. More than 50 percent of the world’s population is at risk, or 3.3 billion people.

Malaria is largely a maternal and child health crisis.

Malaria is a leading killer of children in Africa.

Somewhere in Africa, a mother loses her child to malaria every 45 seconds. That is equal to 2,000 children every day.

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