Malaria Day

Sunday was Malaria Day. We decided to participate in World Vision's "Night of Nets" on Friday Night. This was an opportunity to share how people, especially children, around the world are being affected by malaria. Since Cory has had malaria several times after contracting it in Madagascar, and learning more about the disease, we felt it important to share. However, no on showed up. Maybe I didn't advertise it enough--though I've blogged about it and posted notes and information for the past few weeks. Our family supported my endeavors and we learned more about malaria and watched a 9 minute video on the subject. Malaria is deadly. 350-500 million people are affected by malaria every year. 2000-3000 children die from malaria every day. Malaria was eradicated in our country in 1951, why can't it be abolished in other countries? In 2008 our President signed a bill to provide $5 billion towards malaria, HIV/AIDS, and poverty. 2 years later, only $500 million has been given. One way that malaria can be prevented is with the use of bed nets. $6 will save a life by providing an insecticide treated bed net that will cover 2 or more children and will last up to 4 years.