Tushar,

Yeabu lives with her parents and two siblings in a single bedroom with no running water and no electricity.  She attends the Pentecostal church in the Wellington Community.  Yeabu likes to play volleyball.

Her father is a soldier – on assignment in another town – and lives far away from the rest of the family earning $70 a month.  The mother earns approximately $30 per month as a petty trader / open market vendor selling used clothes.  With such meager incomes, their diets / meals are typically not balanced or complete.

Yeabu was delighted to receive the nutritional vitamin supplements.  This will give her good nutritional supplements for the upcoming months.

Thanks, Tushar for your support that is helping to provide nutritional supplements that her growing body needs.

The Freeman family lives in the Wellington community of Freetown.  The parents are happily married with 4 children – 2 girls and 2 boys with ages ranging from one year and 7 months to 8 years.  The family has seen better days and both parents earlier had jobs with wages that sustained them.  Due to a downturn in the economy, the mother Janet lost her job as a hair dresser and is currently looking for work.  Her husband, Arthur is a carpenter and is now working seven days a week to make ends meet.

The family did not use mosquito nets at all – in part because they could not afford them and in part because they did not believe in the effectiveness of nets as a measure of combating malaria.  The three older children and parents have had a history of malaria illness.  We had the opportunity to discuss their non-use of nets and highlight the effectiveness of nets in combating malaria.  This was supported by the testimony of a previous net recipient who has been free from mosquito bites and malaria for two months.

With all this in mind, they decided to give the nets a try.  The ready availability of five free nets helped them overcome their reluctance.  They have slept mosquito-bite free for two nights and are happy they gave the mosquito nets a try.

Thanks Farookh for providing these effective nets and helping protect the family from malaria.

Daniel lives with his parents, two brothers and two sisters in a single room home made of zinc sheets. The home has no running water, no electricity and poor toilet facilities in the Wellington Municipality. His father, a cobbler is the provider of the family with a paltry income of just US$20 per month. No wonder, Daniel has lived in poverty all his life. He walks to school barefoot and often goes through the day without breakfast or lunch.

Daniel’s schooling expenses are currently being borne by a sympathetic and kind neighbor who sees hope and promise in him.  Getting a meal for the children every day is a major challenge for Daniel’s parents. The family prepares a sauce / stew for three days and using the rice given to them by some neighbors and at times by the church they attend. Daniel uses a locally made kerosene lamp to study at night and sleeps on a mat spread on an unpaved floor. Daniel hopes to become a carpenter when he grows up.

Living in such deprived conditions, his family was grateful to get a mosquito net.  It brought smiles to their faces and made their day.  Thanks Dorothy for your gift to Daniel and his family.

Fatu lives in Wellington, in the greater Freetown area in Sierra Leone. Her neighborhood is near a mosquito-infested swamp and the people there are vulnerable to malaria.

Fatu’s family survives on $150 per month – the budget is especially tight as there are five children to feed. Before getting the mosquito net, Fatu covered herself up with sheets and blankets to escape from the pesky mosquitoes, making it very hot and unbearable on summer nights.

Dorothy – your gift of a mosquito net for Rosemary has given her many nights of restful and comfortable sleep, safe from the malaria-spreading mosquitoes. Thank You!!

Julie,

Rosemary lives in a bare two-bedroom house that does not have electricity or running water. Her widowed mother takes care of her and her two siblings.  Since their father passed away, her mother heads the family and supports the children working as a petty trader / street hawker earning a meager income.

Rosemary walks one-and-a-half miles to school every weekday. But before she heads out to school, she and her siblings walk a mile away from their home to fetch water for the day for their mother.  The kids study at night in the light of a kerosene lamp. A diligent student, Rosemary aspires to be a nurse some day.

Rosemary was pleased to get her mosquito net.  She will not be bothered by mosquitoes and will get a good night’s sleep, fresh and ready for school the next morning! Thanks Julie for giving her a mosquito-net-fortress.

Kadiatu lives with her mother and five sisters in a single bedroom home with no running water and no electricity. She attends the Orphanage Primary School in the Wellington community. Her mother sells fruits and vegetables at the local market and is the main provider of the home with a monthly income of around $50.  This amount is woefully inadequate for their household needs.

Despite the challenges, Kadiatu is a dedicated student and her favorite subjects are mathematics and social studies. She dreams of becoming a banker when she grows up.

The family was delighted to receive a mosquito net – in the photo above, Kadiatu is holding up the net they were given.

Thank you Dorothy for your gift to Kadiatu and her family.

Siaka lives in Freetown, Sierra Leone in a very humble house with no running water or electricity.  He loves to play soccer and is an avid learner at school. Siaka’s father is a worker for a local construction company helping to lay bricks. His mother currently is out of a job and is considering starting a small business selling essential items from the front of their rented apartment.

Because of the meager household income, Siaka’s parents had not been able to purchase a treated mosquito net for him.  Siaka had been sleeping exposed to mosquito bites and had fallen ill from malaria at least twice in the past year.

With this background in mind, understandably, they were extremely happy to receive a mosquito net.  This new net will keep him safe and secure from the reach of mosquitoes and malaria.  This brought a big relief to Siaka and his parents.

Thanks Scott for making a difference and helping make this possible!

Emmanuel’s father is a carpenter and the main provider of a family of three, which includes his wife and a dependant relative, with a monthly income of US $50  – which is not enough to cover the family needs.

Emmanuel’s mother is a petty trader with monthly income of US $30 which helps, but is still not enough to supplement fully the father’s income to meet the family needs. Emmanuel and his family live in a single room zinc sheet home with no running water and no electricity.

As a growing child, one of the concerns of Emmanuel’s parents is that he gets the nutrition his growing body needs.  They have been making sacrifices as best as they can to ensure he receives all the balanced and complete nutrition that he needs.

This gift of nutrition supplements is helping to make this a reality.

Thanks Scott for meeting this need and making this a reality!

Richmond is the son of a pastor of a local church in the Wellington municipality. This smart and promising boy lives with his father, mother and two sisters in a two-bedroom block house with no running water and no electricity. Richmond’s father pastors a congregation of 40 members, most of whom are unemployed. His mother is a petty trader.  With their total monthly income of $110, they are unable to make ends meet.

After school each day, Richmond spends most of his time in an after-school program or playing soccer.  Richmond depends on a locally made kerosene lamp when studying at night and sleeps on a savanna (grass) bed with his brother and two sisters.  Richmond wants to be an accountant when he grows up.

Because of the meager family income, the family meals have not been nutritionally balanced or complete.  They were grateful for the nutritional supplements.  The local nurse showed Richmond how to take the liquid  supplements.

Thanks Digvijay for providing these supplements that are complementing Richmond’s diet and giving him the supplements his growing body needs.

Kadiatu, her father, mother and four brothers lives in a single bedroom apartment in a family house without electricity and no running water. Kadiatu’s father is a painter with a monthly income of around $70, that barely supports the home. Her mother was a petty trader but has stopped doing business due to poor health.

Kadiatu runs errands for people to raise money for lunch. She enjoys reading and listening to music. Kadiatu sleeps on a savanna (grass) bed. She wants to be a journalist when she grows up.   As a journalist, she plans to write about health issues that the people in her community are experiencing.  She hopes to help combat sickness through spreading information.

Our journalist-to-be was very happy to receive a treated mosquito net.  Thanks to the protection afforded by this net Kadiatu is now beyond the reach of mosquitoes and malaria.  She looks forward to writing about the benefits of this net – from personal experience.