A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. More than 1 million people — primarily infants, young children and pregnant women — die annually from this disease. That’s greater than the entire population of San Francisco and twice the population of Washington, D.C.

But there is hope.

Prevention and treatment of malaria are the main focus of Christian Children’s Fund’s community-based approach. CCF educates communities on the use of bed nets, recognizing symptoms and how to seek treatment, as well as the benefits of Indoor Residual Spraying. Through the Presidents Malaria Initiative (PMI), CCF has taken the lead in Senegal and recently obtained a grant that enabled the purchase of 60 Yamaha motorcycles for nurses, community health workers, and staff.

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Take action by learning about malaria, the cause and the treatments. Raise awareness with your friends through CCF’s malaria application on Facebook. Buy a bed net and help save a life.

Together we can all help make a difference in the global fight against malaria.

The Perfect Environment for Malaria Education in Senegal
Jennifer Harter

There’s no better place for education than a classroom and perhaps no lesson more important in Senegal than that of malaria.

Funded by USAID, students in Mbour, a city along the western coast of Senegal, have participated in a variety of activities leading up to World Malaria Day on April 25.

Teachers instructed 6,420 students in 214 schools about modes of malaria transmission, preventative measures and risk factors. Students learned in a variety of ways including writing poems and songs, drawing pictures and performing skits. The children also played games to test their knowledge of malaria.

Originally conducted in four districts in 2003, the program now reaches 55 districts thanks to CCF’s community health project in collaboration with the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI).

President Bush launched the PMI in June 2005 pledging to increase U.S. malaria funding by more than $1.2 billion over five years to reduce deaths due to malaria by 50 percent in 15 African countries. He challenged other donor countries, private foundations and corporations to help reduce the suffering and death caused by this disease. CCF is the lead implementing partner in Senegal for the PMI.

Progress is being made. Children sleeping under treated nets increased from 39.6 percent to 98 percent since the program started in 2003. When mothers were asked, 96 percent said they spent the previous night sleeping under a treated net, compared to 41.8 percent before the project began.

Although the classroom is where the education process began for these children, they also took their lessons home and are making a difference in the fight against malaria.

Development Education

	A Closer Look at Malaria - PDF Learn how malaria affects communities, parents and children in Uganda and CCF’s community-based responses.

	A Malaria Resource for Children and Youth - PDF Games and information to help children and youth understand the malaria crisis in Uganda.

	NGO Experiences in the Fight Against Malaria - PDF Join CCF on April 21 as we come together with Johns Hopkins University to host a panel discussion on malaria in Washington, D.C. The panelists will highlight various ongoing activities in Africa’s fight to eliminate malaria.

CCF Brief

	CCF Senegal — Malaria Programming - PDF

	Malaria Day Community Statement - PDF

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