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- Preventing malaria involves protecting yourself against mosquito bites and taking anti-malarial medicines.
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- As part of Catch the Buzz!, the making of mosquitoes helps raise awareness of how malaria is spread. Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease, yet more than 600,000 people die from it each year, many of them children under 5.
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- Mosquitoes become infected by biting an infected person and drawing blood that contains the parasite. When that mosquito bites another person, that person becomes infected.
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- “Marla” is the mascot for St. Andrew’s vacation Bible school program, Catch the Buzz! – a resource of the ELCA Malaria Campaign.
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- The ELCA Malaria Campaign is uniquely positioned to help provide mosquito nets, education, testing, medication and more to help eliminate deaths from this disease for good.
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- Children attending St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church’s Catch the Buzz! vacation Bible school program, dress up as mosquitoes. Malaria is caused by a bite from a mosquito infected with parasites.
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- The children participating in Catch the Buzz! learn how they can help put a stop to malaria.
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- ELCA congregations and members participating in the ELCA Malaria Campaign are striving to eliminate malaria for future generations.
The vacation Bible school program at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids, Minn., featured Catch the Buzz! – a resource of the ELCA Malaria Campaign. More than 50 kids spent a week this summer learning how they can be part of ending malaria in Africa through the campaign, which supports Lutheran companion churches and partners in their efforts to educate, prevent and treat malaria. The campaign is committed to raising $15 million by 2015 to support work in 13 African countries.
