Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Strengthening HIV responses in Masaka
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Lets Join hands to educate orphans.
Sponsor Ugandan Orphans in School
Your donations can help 12 young orphaned children - children who have lost their parents due to the AIDS epidemic in the Masaka district of rural Uganda - to stay on in primary and secondary school and helping them pay their schooling needs.
Your help will pay the school fees of 3 primary school children, provide school books, pens and uniforms and also most importantly provide each child with a health nutritious meal each day at school. Your help will also support 9 older teenage orphans to continue with their secondary education during the year and enable them attain a bright future to support other vulnerable members of the family as a result they be able to support their younger brothers and sisters to continue on in school in the near future. http://www.betterplace.org/groups/hellen-nalugo-sabastians-fundraising-event
Mosquito nets for Kids
Each day Malaria claims the lives of 320 Ugandans.
Your donations can help to pay for the purchase and distribution of mosquito nets to vulnerable children in 25 child headed households – homes where children have been orphaned by Aids - in the Masaka district of Uganda, Your support will help provide these girls and boys with access a mosquito net.
Malaria is a parasitic disease responsible for the deaths of at least a million people every year, 90% of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa, and almost all of these deaths are amongst children (at least a million more deaths occur from malaria related complications such as severe anemia).
However sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets can reduce the incidence of malaria by half – most insect bites from Malaria carrying mosquitos take place at nighttime between 2am and 6am when people are asleep. Sleeping under a malaria net not only prevents insects from biting people but also kills any insects when they make contact with the insecticide-treated nets.