By Fatima Lawani | Head Fundraising
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
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