hanks to your donations we were able to provide more malaria tests to children in Sierra Leone. While mosquito bed nets provide very effective protection against malaria during the night, they do not protect children from exposure to mosquitoes in the early evening (before bedtime) when mosquitoes are active. Malaria causes unnecessary sickness, hospitalization, and deaths which can easily be prevented. 

Malaria is one of the leading causes of child death in Africa. Bed nets are one of the main prevention measures that are used to combat malaria; because they have been treated with safe, residual insecticide that is used to block, kill and repel mosquitoes. Thanks in part to your support, life-saving bed nets are continuing to be distributed in Sierra Leone. 

We greatly appreciate your continued support that enables more families to receive the bed nets they need to protect themselves from Malaria. The long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) provide an effective barrier and protection from mosquito bites. By providing these bed nets to families we are truly saving lives...YOU are saving lives!

Thanks to your generous donations, over 200 bed nets were distributed to families in Freetown, Kamawornie, Bo, Liberia, and Cameroon in 2017.  These bed nets are providing families with protection from malaria while they sleep.   Our goal is to provide even more bed nets to families in 2018.  We want to change the statistics below.

According to the CDC:

Africa is the most affected due to a combination of factors:

Thank you for your continued support that is providing more families with bed nets and saving more lives from malaria.  Aruna (pictured) is one of the children who recently received a net. 

Thanks to your donations, we were able to purchase 30 bed nets to protect families in Liberia from mosquitos while they sleep.  

Less than 10% of children sleep under protective nets in Liberia, where malaria is still a frequent and killer disease. Malaria causes unnecessary sickness, hospitalization, and deaths - most of which could be easily prevented. The long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets provide an effective barrier and protection from  

You are helping save lives through your donations that purchased bed nets for these families in need.

According to the World Health Organization, in 2015, there were roughly 212 million malaria cases and an estimated 429 000 malaria deaths. Increased prevention and control measures have led to a 29% reduction in malaria mortality rates globally since 2010. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to carry a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden. 

While those statistics are very sad, the reality is we can and we are doing something to change that.  We are together making progress and reducing malaria- related deaths.

Thanks in part to your donations, we have proactively started testing children in Wellington, Sierra Leone for Malaria. 

Sixteen tests were provided by your contributions. Two of the 16 students tested positive for malaria!  We caught the illness at the very early stage.  Thankfully, we were able to treat them right away, preventing the full onset of malaria and illness.  This proactive action and instant remedy were possible because of YOUR support.

Every bed net that we are able to provide, thanks to your generous donations, is saving lives!

The bed nets we are distributing are effectively protecting families from Malaria while they sleep. We are specifically targeting communities and families in need - in particular families with young children.

Did you know that according to a 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) report, in 2016, 3 in 10 Sierra Leoneans were infected with Malaria. "Sierra Leone remains one of the worst affected by the disease" and the disease remains "serious public health threat".