Anti-Malaria paint creating safe zones for the most vulnerable. #malariaprevention
The New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya is located right at the Victoria Lake. The humid climate makes this area a perfect breeding ground for the mosquitoes transmitting Malaria, an infectious disease responsible for 70.000 deaths per year, in Kenya alone.
We have decided to support a project by the "Trierer Nothilfe e.V.", a Not-for-Profit organisation from Germany. Here's Dietmar Pistol - dear friend and head of their fundraising efforts - describe their groundbreaking project:
"Our project is located in Kenya, in Kisumu on Lake Victoria, one of the areas in Kenya most endangered by malaria. Around 250 million people worldwide are infected with the dreaded tropical disease, most of them in Africa. Every year, around 20 million Kenyans are affected by malaria, an alarming number. For the past decades, Malaria has been one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. Statistically, a child dies of the disease about every 30 seconds in Africa alone.
With your donations we want to help the New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu with Anti-malaria paint. It is the only one of it's kind that is not toxic to humans or any animal, other than insects. In fact, it does not affect them at all, but acts only against the chitin, the building block of many insects, such as the Anopheles mosquito, the carrier of the malaria tropica, which is usually fatal without treatment. The active ingredient in this color also works against the transmitters of dengue fever, the yellow fever mosquito, and even the Asian tiger mosquito that spreads in Europe and kills these insects.
The New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu is one of the largest in Kenya and the largest hospital in Nyanza province. It has more than 450 beds. We are able to create rooms, which are free from the risk of malaria infection, through the interior painting with the anti-malaria paint, in the treatment and operating rooms, so that the children and adults, who are treated here, and are already weakened by a disease or infection anyway are not also exposed to aggravation by a malaria infection. We plan to apply this anti-malaria paint in the most important rooms and operating departments. The paint will be applied by the employees of the hospital and the Trier emergency e.V. will be responsible for the transport and the purpose of use."
Learn more about his project (in german) and or donate at..
https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/23178-gib-malaria-keine-chance-hilfe-fur-ein-gefahrdetes-krankenhaus-in-kenia
..our via your purchase at craftpartisans.com.
