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- Zambia: The malaria program in Zambia works to protect children like these from the effects of malaria, including death. The most vulnerable are children under 5, pregnant women, the elderly, people living in poverty and people with HIV and AIDS. Your gifts to the ELCA Malaria Campaign help equip communities with the knowledge and resources to prevent malaria.
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- Tanzania: Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease, but without enough training and resources, malaria took almost 8,000 lives in 2012 in Tanzania. Dainess Gidahos, with her husband and 10-month-old daughter, is participating in the Child Survival Program. The program equips them with malaria prevention education, health care, nutritional needs and entrepreneurial skills.
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- Zimbabwe: This ambulance at the Burure Clinic eases transportation challenges faced by many communities in Zimbabwe. Many people in Zimbabwe must travel miles, often on foot, to access health care. The presence of a clinic in the community of Burure, as well as having an ambulance, works to ease some cases of difficult transportation and lack of health care.
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- Burundi: In this drama in Nyamugari, Burundi, a woman takes her health record and seeks medical attention from the doctor. These dramas demystify the experience of going to the health center for community members who are more comfortable seeking help and malaria treatment from the local traditional healer.
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- Angola: This young girl hides behind the safety of a loved one at an event with the Lutheran malaria program in Angola. The malaria program hosts many events at the community level to increase knowledge of malaria symptoms, testing, treatment and prevention. Through this education from local community leaders, this young girl’s family knows how to prevent malaria.
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- Uganda: The Lutheran malaria program in Uganda continues to develop relationships and share ideas and materials with other non-profit organizations to increase effectiveness all around. Here, an educational poster shows prevention methods for how we can stop malaria together.
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- Mozambique: Seven churches in Caia held a workshop focusing on malaria transmission and prevention methods. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mozambique (with support from the ELCA Malaria Campaign) hosted the training with the help of the other local churches and denominations. This crowd is excited to use the teaching methods to educate their communities.
In the fight against malaria, the ELCA Malaria Campaign has been working diligently throughout the church to raise $15 million by the end of 2015. And there is cause for thanksgiving – as of right now, we are just a few dollars away from raising $13 million of the $15 million.
Your generous gifts and help in spreading awareness of how to stop malaria and address the devastating health, social and economic effects of the disease are making a difference in 13 African countries: Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Funds raised by the ELCA Malaria Campaign support malaria programs of Lutheran church bodies and Lutheran development organizations in these African countries.
Our work isn’t done yet though. To see the progress being made and to join in this ongoing work and contribute to the ELCA Malaria Campaign, go to www.ELCA.org/Malaria.
The ELCA Malaria Campaign is one of 10 priorities of the ELCA’s five-year comprehensive campaign, Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA. Approved by the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, the campaign seeks to raise $198 million to help sustain and grow the ministries of this church.
