A plague without remedy… A disease that kills millions every year. No, it’s not COVID 19, it is the ancient malaria, the infamous sickness carried by mosquitoes. During the 1800’s, doctors around the world thought this terrible fever was brought on when the mist was rising from the African rivers in the morning. It was not until David Livingstone that we found the real cause of the disease: mosquitoes. These horrible little pests are responsible for killing more people and children in the past 3000 years than any wars and pestilences put together.
David Livingstone was also the one who used for the first time the drug called quinine to help with the symptoms. He experimented on himself and it worked quite well. It doesn’t solve the problem, as the malaria lives in your liver for the rest of your life, but it does clean the blood stream from the disease.
Today, more than 200 million people a year suffer from malaria across Africa alone. Mostly children under 5. If you survive your first 5 years you most probably will not die of malaria.
Quinine is not easily available to all children in Africa and it has devastating side effects that could kill as well. The simplest solution is to protect the children from the mosquito bites, which occur mostly from dawn to dusk.
So, we deliver mosquito nets.
We use untainted mosquito nets (some organizations use nets sprayed with insecticide) and we deliver them to the hardest hit areas of Africa affected by malaria.
A net costs 10 dollars and up to 5 children can sleep under it. It is so effective that we discover that the rate of infection dropped by 80% in the villages where we delivered nets.
10 dollars. The price of a fancy Starbucks coffee. Can you go without one, for one day and help save 5 lives? Imagine the impact: we can buy 100.000 nets a year, deliver them ourselves and save 500.000 children from dying.
Let’s start a campaign: 100.000 coffees for 500.000 children saved from malaria!!
Become a Pilgrim, donate below and let’s change a child’s life.
0 Comments