Mar 14

Written by: Administrator Account
3/14/2010 2:51 PM

Malaria is being controlled on Unguja Island (Zanzibar) by prevention training,  mosquito net distribution along side of spraying houses. The USA has funded another year of malaria prevention by sending out teams to spray houses again. If they continue to spray and teach prevention this disease can be controlled and the death rate will drop by thousands. The mainland and other Islands are still under great attacks from this parasite that kills all ages of people, still the most vulnerable is children under 5 and pregnant women.  Many thousands still need nets. We found this week on the Island of Mafia only 5000 nets were given to an Island of 50,000 people. They need nets. Spraying is not being done on this Island. We continue to teach in all of our health day clinics and distribute nets as we are able. We can only do this with the help of donors for nets.  We have a school headed by Linda Hahn in North Carolina called Opportunity Middle School raising funds to help us save lives in Tanzania. These kids are creating projects and asking for donations to help save the life of a child in Africa. Amazing young people of the USA! If you have a group of young people that would like a great project that will save lives contact CHaRA.

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