Help Eradicate Malaria by Providing Treated Mosquito Nets

Uganda has a population of 31 million and about 35% of the population lives below the poverty line. In rural Uganda, in areas like Bombo, Luwero, Wobulenzi and Kakoge most people live on between $1.00 to $2.00 (USD) per day; that is $30 to $60 per month. So purchasing a treated mosquito net is sometimes a choice between providing food or school fees for their children. We, even in these hard economic times, don’t have to make those hard choices.

From the Uganda Minister of Health on Malaria:

Malaria is endemic throughout the country with 90% of the total population in highly endemic, primarily rural areas. It accounts for 25% of all outpatient attendances in Uganda and 15.4% discounted life years lost due to death from malaria and 12.9 days lost due to absenteeism. The overall cost of malaria in Uganda is estimated at nearly 1% of the Gross Domestic Product. The National Malaria Control Program outlines insecticide treated nets (ITNs) as a key strategy for malaria control. The government has allocated funds to the districts to plan and encourage the use of treated mosquito nets (ITN’s).

It is the Church, not the Government meeting the Needs of the People:

Like education, we hear the government stating how much they are doing, but when we travel we don’t see any evidence that the people who need the treated mosquito nets have received them.

We know malaria is at epidemic proportions. In Bombo we asked everyone we came in contact with and not one person said they never had malaria. From what we found on the ground 100% on the people have had malaria. Malaria is a disease we eradicated in the United States by 1949 (Center for Disease Control).

We have witnessed firsthand the effectiveness of treated mosquito nets in two significant ways in Bombo and in the Luwero District.

1.      Where treated mosquito nets have been distributed rates of malaria have drastically been reduced.

2.      Christ is getting the glory because the treated mosquito nets you help provide are distributed by the local church.

People are coming to church because the church loved them enough to care about their physical needs. When they come they hear, many for the first time, about the love of Jesus and the hope they have for eternity.

Through your generous donations we have been able to distribute over 2,000 treated mosquito nets through Bombo Pentecostal Church, but we need to distribute more.

If you have a heart for the spiritually lost and those affected by a disease that has been eradicated here for the last six decades, please consider giving to the Malaria Fund.

When you give, simple write on your check Malaria and 100% of your donation will go to providing treated mosquito nets to those in Bombo and the Luwero District with a treated mosquito net.