Save 1000 Children At Risk From Malaria in Ghana

We are glad to inform you that we are embarking on a bold step in our malaria prevention campaign. After popular request by many of the mothers, we have plan to not only provide each recipient with bed net but to also screen in identifying mother who she and her child is not currently register under the National Health Insurance Scheme.

We would like to welcome you to the Operation Ten-A-Month! This is a latest part of our campaign wherein we are targeting at least ten mothers a month who we will issue life saving insecticide treated bed net and also include registering mother and child under the NHIS.

Kindly note that as a donor you have been very instrumental in saving lives of many children in Cape Coast, Ghana. We would like you to continue your support in extending this to the mothers as well.

This is important because a healthy child needs a healthy mother. The health insurance will cover the mother and child for a period of five years, renewable annually.

Currently we have selected the initial ten mothers for this exercise who has already received the bed nets and will on the tenth of March get register for their health insurance.

Margaret, a 17yr old mother of Frederick, who is eleven months old, could not hide her joy. She expressed her gratitude for us coming to their assistance. Being unemployed, and a school dropout, she has no means of raising funds to buy a treated bed net nonetheless register both of them under the health insurance scheme.

Veronica, who has a two year old daughter, is a widow who has been put out of where she lives and is currently sleeping in an old kiosk close to a gutter which is a breeding ground for mosquito. She lamented on how almost every month she has to treat she or her daughter for malaria. Sometimes, both of them. Her work, as a dish washer, is only enough to keep food on the table for she and her little one.

Dear donor, each of these women has a story of their own on why they are unable to get a bed net or get register. With your help we can bring more smiles on the faces of these single mothers.

Donate today or share their story to someone to help in this process. You can decide to sponsor a mother a child each month. It will cost $30.00 to get a bed net and register both mother and child.

Thanks for your donation.

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We are glad that we are still striving to save children from malaria in Ghana. This is not an easy issue for us as it now stands. We are short of funding to get the nets in whole sale and is currently relying on retail prices which is not economical due to the low budget we have.

A net is now costing a little over $10 over the counter.

Another issue which has been brought to our attention is that the health insurance cards which we did for over 200 children need renewal. Most of the mothers has approached us asking if we are doing renewal process. The card which is valid for five years is renewable yearly. As a result some of the mother with expired cards ar now turning to traditional remedy, which is not advisable in all cases.

Nonetheless, last month. Eight mothers in Cape Coast were issued insecticide treated nets in the Bakanoo community. Mercy, a mother of two, express her excitement that she had been praying for enough money to get a bed net. She stays close to the Fosu Lagoon, a huge breeding ground for mosquito. She went on, in the night, there is no way one can even sit outdoors for cool breeze when it is hot inside and the burning of mosquito insecticide coils at night when sleeping is giving the children and I block nose and some mornings, headache.

We are still appealing for your continuous support in reducing malaria not only in Ghana but Africa.