Freedom From Malaria

A child's health must be tenaciously protected. Childhood is characterized by freedom, play, and hopeful futures full of potential. These pillars of childhood are stripped away when sickness and dangerous diseases such as malaria threaten a child's life.

In the gospels, Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan who advocated for the well-being of a man in need and ensured that this stranger was brought to good health. When asked, those listening to Jesus' parable pointed to the Samaritan as an example of what a good neighbor looks like. In Luke 10:37, Jesus instructed them to "go and do likewise" (NIV). Where there are people in need, the gospel message instructs us to be a source of help, care, and provision.

Our Malaria Intervention Initiative gives poor children and their families resources for healthy living and malaria prevention. It includes:

• Mosquito bed nets treated with insecticide, along with training in how to properly use a net
• Anti-malarial drugs, IV medication, transfusions, and breathing treatments
• Education on ways to prevent mosquito breeding areas
• Resources to clean mosquito breeding grounds, such as ponds and standing water bodies

This World Malaria Day, you can help a generation of children grow up free from the threat of malaria. By helping us provide antimalarial drugs and insecticide-treated mosquito nets to at-risk children and their families, you help make it possible for them to live up to their God-given potential.

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• With a gift of $100, we will support more children on crisis
• Volunteer to be our Charity field project mobilizers

WHAT IS IT?

In our Local Communities where Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda works, life-threatening illnesses and emergencies have the potential to thwart or completely derail a child’s healthy development and chances for a bright future.

Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda health and medical interventions were designed to address imminent health crises to ensure that children continue to progress along Cico Uganda’s child development progress path.

KEY STATISTICS

• 5% children under age five die from mostly preventable causes. The leading causes of under-five child deaths are attributable to pre-term birth complications, pneumonia, birth asphyxia, diarrhea and malaria. Malnutrition is linked to 45 percent of all child deaths.
• Pneumonia and diarrhea remain the leading causes of death in children under five, killing 10 children in a day. Deaths from these two are strongly linked to poverty-related factors such as under-nutrition, lack of safe water and sanitation, indoor air pollution and inadequate access to health care, with the poorest children in the poorest local communities we serve.
• Since 2000, under-five child deaths caused by malaria have fallen by 65 percent. Still, malaria continues to be an urgent public health concern. In 2015, it led to 438,000 deaths, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, of which 80 percent were children under five years of age.6
• In 2015, the number of children under age 15 living with HIV/AIDS was 1.8 million, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. The majority acquired HIV from their infected mothers during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding. Of the estimated 1.1 million people who died of AIDS-related illnesses in 2015, 110,000 were children under 15.7

OUR STRATEGY

A child’s welfare is directly related to his or her family’s condition. Therefore, Compassion’s health and medical interventions serve children registered in Compassion programs as well as their families.

From help with severe medical issues like cancer, heart disease and traumatic injury, to immunizations and nutrition that help ward off disease and infection, Compassion’s health and medical services are timely, targeted and life saving.

Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda health and medical interventions provides:

• HIV/AIDS education, prevention, treatment, nutrition and support
• Malaria education and prevention, including distribution of mosquito nets
• Medical assistance for emergency medical needs or a procedure a family cannot afford
• Immunizations
• Trauma counseling in cases of abuse and violence

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• Volunteer to be our Charity field project mobilizers
• Freedom From Malaria
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