Just Like My Child Foundation Remember the last time you or your children had the flu? Not only was it miserable physically, but it interrupted your life, to say the least. You missed work which affected your income. Your children missed school which affected their education. If you were the one with the flu, you were probably too weak to shop and prepare healthy food and keep your home as clean and sanitary as you'd like. You felt so miserable you wanted to stay in bed and wake up days later when you were feeling better. Now imagine your family, your babies and your community struggling to survive a virus worse than the flu. Imagine fighting it not just during a season, but year round. What if this flu was fatal and the most vulnerable victims were children, pregnant women and the elderly? What if you could not easily transport your child to a medical facility to get relief and all you could do was try to make him/her comfortable? Of the 1.5 to 2 million people who die of malaria every year, 90% of those deaths occur in Africa. A child between the ages of one and five dies from the disease every 30 seconds. Economically and emotionally, how would your community function under these conditions? How healthy and productive would it be? It would make sense that if the cases of malaria could be reduced the economic growth of the community could improve. In Uganda, the economy is already one of the poorest on the continent, which only adds to the problem. There are very few resources to provide preventative education and limited access to nearby medical treatment. As stated by Stephen Yeboah in his article on GhanaWeb, Malaria has indeed drained and is draining a lot of state funds. We should all as a country rise up to this challenge and reverse conditions to the benefits of the rural poor who are more exposed to these dangers. Malaria is, indeed, the unrelieved burden on the economy. Funds wasted in providing for curative mechanisms should rather be directed to the preventive aspect to culminate in the provision of lasting solutions to the rise in malaria cases day by day. Just Like My Child Foundation is providing resources to help educate the Ugandan communities about sanitary conditions and eliminating the breeding grounds for mosquito. We are also providing netting for families to help prevent infections but we need help in creating stronger distribution channels for these nets and medical treatment for the communities in Uganda. You can help support the efforts to make resources available to these families who are losing their children at alarming rates.
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