Nets to fight Malaria
June 3, 2010
By pwrdf
June 13 Story: Nets to fight Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito transmitted disease which kills approximately 1 million people a year, mostly children under the age of five. Through community theatr,e community health workers teach the community about the benefits of having good environmental sanitation, the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets, how to dispose of garbage and to treat stagnant waters where the mosquito grows. When an insecticide-treated net is properly used it cuts the malaria transmission rate by 50% and children’s deaths by 20%.
Your donation of $10 can purchase an insecticide-treated net to protect a family from malaria for approximately 5 years.
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