By Tom Arsenault | Overseas Program Manager
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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