End Malaria in Children of Rural communities, Kano

Dear Friends, Supporters and Family of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,

The last you heard from us was on a report on a programme initiative we are doing within this project titled "Operation Lafiyar Uwa" where seven young girls became advocates on raising funds for any recent bride to sleep under an Insecticide Treated Nets to prevent against malaria when she gets pregnant.

The project is ongoing with new brides and women with children under five given the nets during one of our outreach programmes after a lecture on home management of malaria and what to do when there is no doctor around.

Another initiatve we came up with to create awareness on malaria in neighbouring communities with the need for pregnant women and children under five to sleep under ITNs and to also raise funds was a football match organized by the community youths; Madobi Boys and Amarzakaya Springers; Madobi won by 2-1 and the Community Chief presented the boys with a pledge of $25 for beating Amarzakaya Springers.

From this match we were able to raise $50 which will be used to buy ACTs drug for our next outreach visit to the community as well as to the community health centre that will be dispersed to the pregnant women and for women with children under five.

We are happy to state that we have recorded a drop in the rate of malaria incidences from our last report to you from 3 in every 5 cases to 1 in every 5 cases seen.

We would appreciate your continued support or any advice you have to give to us on our project to help end malaria in Madobi. You can follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1 or facebook/serenhealthcare of LinkedIn/samirahfaruk or via email on serenhealthcare@gmail.com for further enquires

Best Regards,

Fatima Lawani

Links:

• novelty match in Madobi