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 | Dec 3, 2018
Fight Against Yellow Fever Outbreak

By Samirah Faruk | Project Leader

Little Musa and his net

Dear Supporters, Friends and Family of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,

At every step we take, with your generous support we are fighting the war to reduce the rate of malaria deaths in Northern Nigeria. However, with recent report released on the new cases of malaria and in particular Yellow Fever is a great cause for concern here in Nigeria.

There is a recent outbreak of Yellow Fever which is caused by a virus (Flavivirus) which is transmitted to humans by the bites of infected aedes and heamogogus mosquitoes. The mosquitoes either breed around houses (domestic), in forests or jungles (wild) or in both habitats (semi-domestic).

The Nigeria's Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reports that there are over 1604 suspected cases with 41 confirmed cases recorded in 14 states of Nigeria; Kwara, Kogi, Kano, Zamfara, Kebbi, Nassarawa, Niger, Katsina, Ekiti, Anambra, FCT and Benue. The "Yellow" in its name stems from the yellow colouration of the eyes of the infected persons. The signs and symptoms are in two phrases and usually difficult to diagnose especially in the first stages and can be confused with severe malaria or other Flaviviruses.

We at Serendipity came up with a month campaign of "End Malaria Now" to prevent the spread of this "yellow fever through intensifying our efforts in the distribution of Insecticide Treated Nets and Awareness to keep the community household drains clean, using chemical free insecticides and covering water containers and holes.

Our first campaign has started in Amarzakawa in Ungogo Local Government Council in Kano where we distributed Insecticide Treated Nets to children and also taught them the importance of sleeping under these nets, helping their mothers in keeping the surroundings clean and free from stagnant water.

There is so much we can do for our rural communities and with your continued support we can do so much more. We also want to thank you for the confidence reposed in us in being the focal point between our communities and your goodselves.

You can send us an email for further clarification on serenhealthcare@gmail.com, follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1, like our facebook page/serenhealthcare and LinkedIn.com/serendipity-healthcare-foundation.

Thank you,

Samirah Faruk

Project Leader

The children of Amarzakawa

Beautiful Smiles

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Sep 4, 2018
One Step Forward

By Samirah Faruk | Project Leader

Day one training

Dear supporters, family and friends of Serendipity,

The #Without Malaria campaign we launched started in a school in Tarauni Local Governing council of Kano where we developed a malaria school curriculum and trained 50 students within one week in both Junior and Senior High school with a guide to prevent the prevalence of malaria in their community.

The campaign is to run in two more additional schools within the same local government before the year runs out. As part of the follow up on the ongoing campaign, we collected stories from the children on their experiences, what they have learned and the change they will bring to their community.

50 Insecticide Treated nets were also distributed to the children after the week training and 10 Insecticide Treated Nets were given to their teachers. Malaria Spot Checks were conducted a month after the training and we are glad to state that NO Child out of 20 tested positive for malaria. This is a welcome development considering that prior to our campaign, the children were not sleeping under ITNs due to various reasons but were always susceptible to malaria but ever since the #Without Malaria campaign, there has been no cases and are now sleeping under ITNs.

During the period however, there was a flooding in Ungwar Mai kwari in Jibia Local Government Council in Katsina State which happened to be a community of one of the wives of one of our board of trustee member, thus we went to the community and distributed 20 Insecticide Treated Nets to the displaced persons through the district head.

We intend to continue with our campaign to two more schools in Tarauni Local Government Area as well as distribute ITNs to a recent flooding that happened in a community (Dan Hassan) in Kura Local Government Area, Kano.

Through your continuous donations, we have been able to achieve all of this and hope to scale up our activities with your continued support, kind words and donations in ending malaria in rural communities in Nigeria.

You can follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1, like our Facebook page on /serenhealthcare, LinkedIn/samirahfaruk or send us an email at serenhealthcare@gmail.com to know more about our work.

Also check out our website on www.serendipityhealthcare.ngo for more details.

Best,

Samirah Faruk

Wisali listening to the talk on malaria

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Jun 4, 2018
Breaking new grounds

By Fatima Lawani | Head, Fundraising

Badariya and her ITN

Dear supporters, family and friends of Serendipity,

From the last time you heard from us, we were to transition into two new rural communities in Kumbotso and Gezawa Local Governing Council in Kano, Nigeria by providing them Insecticide Treated Nets, first line malaria drugs and health education on environmental cleanliness and home management of malaria when the doctor is not around. We were only able to achieve entry into Gezawa Local Governing Council where we had town hall meetings with all stakeholders inclusive of the district head, women group and the local community based organization to best understand the community needs.

30 Insecticide Treated Nets were given to children with a talk on the importance of them sleeping underneath it with their families to reduce incidences of cases of malaria. Malaria Spot Checks were conducted and first line drugs administered to them for the 10 children tested four of them had malaria.

The next phase of our campaign is to introduce a school curriculum on malaria, we have developed as a guide for the children in the community school towards achieving total prevention of malaria. We hope to achieve entry into Kumbotso Local Governing Council within the next couple of days in breaking new grounds again.

Through your kind donations, we have been able to achieve all of this and hope to scale up our activities with your continued support, kind words and donations in ending malaria in rural communities in Kano, Nigeria.

You can follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1, like our Facebook page on /serenhealthcare, LinkedIn/samirahfaruk or send us an email at serenhealthcare@gmail.com to know more about our work.

Also check out our website on www.serendipityhealthcare.ngo

Best,

Fatima Lawani

BOT member with some of the children

Musa with his ITN too

Hafsat isnt left out too

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