Improve Health in rural Zimbabwe

Try to imagine happy, healthy, smiling children.  They are happy and healthy because ASAP trained their parents and guardians how to prevent them from contracting Cholera and Malaria, which often means a death sentence to young children.

In rural areas, although situations have improved, there are still highly vulnerable areas like Chipinge and Chiredzi in the eastern and southeastern parts of Zimbabwe where ASAP still needs to do health training.  Waterborne diseases, such as typhoid, dysentery and watery diarrhea - all approaching epidemic levels - are creating concerns that conditions exist for a reprise of the 2008/09 cholera epidemic, which killed more than 4,000 people and infected nearly 100,000 others.

Prevention works - so ASAP needs to continue preventative training in selected areas where death lurks around every pool of unprotected water. 

Please donate generously to help ASAP save lives and keep those children happy and smiling.

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It's now that time of year when the temperature climbs and the rains begin. It's been 105 to 110 degrees in the highlands and hotter in the lowveld. Cholera and Malaria like this weather especially when the rains are heavy. We don't expect much problem in the villages where the ASAP Cluster Facilitators (CFs) were trained and have done the health training at village level. But there are many villages that still need their CFs to be trained so they can pass on the knowledge. This is where there will be Cholera and Malaria outbreaks.

Please help us help those villages to remain Cholera free.  Donate generously and save lives. If you have contributed, we thank you.

See the ASAP Fall Newsletter by clicking the link below.

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It's August and the weather is still chilly and dry in Zimbabwe.  There is little opportunity for Cholera to begin it's horrific scourge right now.  But it is only a couple of months before the heat returns and the rains begin.  So this is the time ASAP's Cluster Facilitators are busy talking to their peers about cleanliness and proper sanitation at home.  This is the only way to prevent a major outbreak of Cholera and prevention is a lot less costly than intervention.

We thank everyone who supported this project and ask that you continue to support it. Diarrhea and dehydration is a lousy way to die. You can be a part of the prevention so we don't have a problem in the first place this year. Please give generously.

Thanks again.

TA