Creating partnerships and increasing communications capacity across the global Church.
Community-based initiative that will connect U.S. churches with African congregations to fight malaria.
Using the church’s infrastructure in Sierra Leone – health clinics, schools, church buildings, pastors and members of congregations –the initiative will develop a model of comprehensive malaria education, prevention and treatment that can be replicated in other countries.
The focus of the program is to provide:
- Mosquito nets for beds,
- Safe insecticides to treat the nets and to control the mosquito population,
- Solar and hand-powered radios to share information about the disease,
- Community-based education and information programs, with special outreach to women and children who are the most vulnerable to malaria, and
- Anti-malarial medicine.
You can help save lives and empower the church and its people in Africa.
“We need radio stations and radios to educate the people. We need drugs to treat people who have the disease…And we need help to deal with the mosquitoes that infect the people,” says Bishop Joao Machado, leader of The United Methodist Church in Mozambique.
Make a pledge to community-based communications in Africa to help in the fight against malaria.
