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Rotarians Eliminating Malaria In TanzaniaRotarians Eliminating Malaria in Tanzania aims to raise funds for equipment, education and research into malaria. The best intervention is to provide Insecticide Treated Nets (ITN's) for poor people.The Hardest Hit are the children under 5 and pregnant women. Everyone benefits from malaria control, the poor benefit the most. ITNs lower malaria by 80% REMIT's goal is to get an ITN to every child under 5 and pregnant women in Tanzania The cost to save a life = £2.50A Heartfelt Thank you From Tanzania We have just been notified that the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation
have awarded us a 3H Grant worth, in total, $349,694.
This is in addition to the two Matching Grants already received that were
worth $280,000. All this is thanks to the Rotarians of Great Britain and Ireland who
have donated, raised, or helped to raise money to help us fight malaria in
Tanzania. It is hard to know how to
express our gratitude to all concerned. Already the mortality and morbidity rates have fallen by 50% in the
areas where nets etc. have been distributed following receipt of the earlier
Grants. This new Grant will enable us to purchase a further 115,300 nets.
If the net is used to protect one person, it means that 115,300 people
will be saved, but usually the nets are placed over several children each night.
I am sure you can work out the mathematics of that calculation. However this 3H Grant will do much more than simply provide nets.
It will also purchase insecticide, set up laboratory facilities, teach
trainers and technicians to diagnose malaria more quickly and accurately, hire
transport, and so much more. The public relations value is incalculable as this is seen by all to be
a major partnership between the local communities, the Rotarians in Tanzania and
the Rotarians here. The Tanzanian
Government has also come on board and is helping us in the fight. Malaria is the biggest single cause of death in Tanzania and one quarter
of all childhood deaths there are due to this disease. There have been proposals at all the last few Councils on Legislation to
take on the eradication of malaria as the next worldwide project for Rotary
International. That will not happen
until poliomyelitis has been beaten, but we, in these islands of ours, are
having a major impact on the fight against malaria in one part of the globe. So, thanks to your support for REMIT, as well as your continued support
for The Rotary Foundation, many more lives will be saved.
The children of Tanzania will never forget your kindness. Brian Stoyel & Keith Barnard-Jones
More information can be found at www.remit.org.uk
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