End Malaria in Children of Rural communities, Kano

Dear Supporters, Family and Friends of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,

With the rains that have commenced, cases of malaria in our rural communities have increased at an alarming rate with malaria related illness at 5 out of 10 outpatient cases seen (Amarzakaya Primary Healthcare Centre, August 2019). This orchestrated our organization to intensify efforts to reduce malaria in our rural communities. The strategy we used for our intensified campaign was the re – distribution of Insecticide Treated Nets to the families we had previously given and also to ten additional new families.

Malaria education was conducted for these families to re- emphasize the importance of sleeping under Insecticide Treated Nets, keeping the surroundings clean free from stagnant water especially this period of the rains was also an initiative we have taken to reduce deaths from complications of malaria in our communities.

Schools have resumed and thus we are embarking on our Stop Malaria campaign to the community schools where we would have a two weeks programme on malaria education to further stress on the importance of sleeping under Insecticide Treated Nets and keeping the environment clean.

We realize that so much more needs to be done to cover more communities and these are the followings ways to which we can reach out to these communities, one of which is your continued donations and support to distribute more Insecticide Treated Nets, create a rewards scheme for pregnant mothers to access quality healthcare and ITNs, residual indoor spraying and rapid diagnostic test kits to test community members.

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Best Regards,

Nmatullah Umar

Links:

• Stopping Malaria
• Stopping Malaria