Physical Health Nigeria Project #15830

End Malaria in Children of Rural communities, Kano

by Serendipity Healthcare Foundation

End Malaria in Children of Rural communities, Kano

Project Report | May 1, 2023
Ready to Stop Malaria in its tracks

By Adama Faruk | Project Coordinator 2

Our Children

Dear Friends, Family and supporters of Serendipity,

The recent report from the WHO regional Office 2021, Malaria keeps causing deaths of our children in Africa with a figure of 90% cases of Malaria related cases of the global figure and 85% of the global cases are deaths of children under five in Africa. Coming down home to Nigeria, Kano State where we are located has the highest figure of malaria related cases thus making the Federal Ministry of Health to declare a state of emergency in Kano on Malaria. This is a saddening and sorrowful and if we do not do anything soon to curb this the figures could be devastating.

This year’s theme is Ready to beat Malaria and in order to improve on our spread we have invited other stakeholders and written to them to join us and one of the organizations that joined us this year is Orange group makers of a cream that can be rubbed on the skin to protect against malaria bites, it is safe for both adults and children.

Prior to the world Malaria Day we have been on awareness creation on the causal effects of Malaria, how to prevent it through environmental sanitation, sleeping under Insecticide Treated Nets, signs and symptoms of Malaria for both children and pregnant women. Thus on World Malaria week starting from the 24^th of April till Friday 28^th April we had radio jingles, distribution of 1000 Insecticide treated nets, Malaria tests on over 100 women and children, first line drugs to those that tested positive and distributed creams manufactured by Orange Group our collaborator in three communities of Ungogo Local Governing Council, Kano making a total of 1000 homes covered within this week.

Our partnership with two Radio Stations Arewa Radio and Freedom Radio that airs our jingles on prevention of malaria and the importance of sleeping under ITNS is yielding fruit as we asked the women and children through our data survey if they knew anything about Malaria and about our organization and they responded in the affirmative, the jingles are both in English and the Local Language Hausa in order for us to reach a wider coverage.

A total social mindset change is needed to stop Malaria in its tracks as even though there is a new Vaccine created to keep us Malaria free we need to still keep our surroundings clean and take precautionary measures to keep it at bay. See also our talks to rural communities on how to keep Malaria at bay and stay healthy.

We have achieved our initial target of 500 beneficiaries and exceed it by double the figure of impacting 1000 beneficiaries this first quarter and hope to do more.

Follow our stories to learn more about how your kind donations have helped and helping our communities on our social media handles at Facebook/serenhealthcare, twitter/serendipityHea1, Instagram/ serendipityHea1

Thank you for your support and kindness because you care.

Thank you,

Adama Faruk

Our women

Test conducted

Cream against Malaria

Orange Group team

SHF team and our woman advocate

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Jan 5, 2023
Continued Fight against Malaria

By Fatima Lawani | Head Fundraising

Children given nets

Dear Friends, Family and supporters of Serendipity,

With our ongoing campaign to ensure that our children under five and pregnant women are safe from malaria, we have covered two communities in Gadan Tudun Fulani in Ungogo Local Governing Council in Kano through the distribution of Insecticide Treated Nets to every household making a total of 3,000 homes covered.

We moved on to Dausayi in Gezawa Local Governing Council in Kano where we have started distribution of Insecticide Treated Nets and our target is to reach 500 households by the end of the first quarter of 2023. Kano, where our project is located has the highest number of outpatient and in-patient cases from a research conducted by the Federal Ministry of health World Malaria Day report, 2022, 1 in 3 children dies from complications of Malaria.

This has further pushed us to increase on the distribution of ITNs to our communities. We have started with baby steps into this new community and hope to achieve our goal of reaching 500 households by the end of the first quarter of 2023.

Aside from the distribution of the ITNs we also teaching the community on how to use the nets effectively, care and sanitation of the environment in order to stop malaria breeding grounds for the vector. We have a team of volunteer community health workers who are helping us in the fight against malaria.

We have also partnered with two Radio Stations Arewa Radio and Freedom Radio that airs our jingles on prevention of malaria and the importance of sleeping under ITNS, the jingles are both in English and the Local Language Hausa in order for us to reach a wider coverage.

Through your kind donations we have started on this new phase of our goal to end Malaria in our rural communities and distributed 50 ITNS thus far in Layin Maigari unit in Dausayi Village of Gezawa, Kano and we will continue until we achieve our goal.

Our next steps are to continue with our campaign and reach our target of 500 households by end of first quarter 2023

Follow our story to learn more about how your kind donations have helped our communities on our social media handles at Facebook/serenhealthcare, twitter/serendipityHea1, Instagram/ serendipityHea1

Thank you for your support and kindness because you care.

Thank you,

Fatima Lawani

Hauwa, a mother of two with a recent attack

Our fathers are not left behind

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Sep 6, 2022
Making strides in curbing Malaria

By Abubakar Suleiman | Project Coordinator

ITNs

Dear Friends, Family and supporters of Serendipity,

Malaria is still the number one killer of children and pregnant women in developing countries, of particular concern is the recent research conduct in Nigeria that shows that Kano has the highest cases of outpatient and inpatient cases of malaria (1 child in 3 by Federal Ministry of health World Malaria Day report, 2022). We are in a crisis situation in Northern Nigeria and with the rains and floods all over we hope these figures will not go up.

As part of our goal to ensure that every child under five and pregnant women are safe from malaria, we have included rapid diagnostic tests for every child and pregnant woman as part of our END MALARIA program in the rural communities, malaria education and prevention.

Our campaign took us to Gadan Tudun Fulani in Ungogo Local Government Council where we tested 40 children, 7 pregnant women and 3 elderly women but 13 of them tested positive. We thus distributed Insecticide Treated Nets to all of them and trained them on prevention of malaria. On our team is our volunteer community health worker, mallam Sagiru who has always been helpful to us in our cause to end Malaria. Gadan is one of the communities where we have distributed over 400 Insecticide Treated Nets and taught them on Malaria Education and prevention and happy to note that they are applying what they were taught.

Through your kind donations we have been able to provide over 5000 ITNs to children and pregnant women in Madobi, Gezawa, Ungogo, Kumbotso and Tofa but this is not enough as we intend to provide additional 1,000,000 more ITNs to our communities and we will not stop until every household sleeps under an ITN.

Our next steps are to continue with our campaign and reach additional 300 women and children by the end of the year.

Follow our story to learn more about how your kind donations have helped our communities on our social media handles at Facebook/serenhealthcare, twitter/serendipityHea1, Instagram/ serendipityHea1

Thank you for your support and kindness because you care.

Thank you,

ITNs distributed

Happy children

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