By Debbie Hoods | Charity Assistant - UK
It is 2014 and it is alarming to think that children are still dying from preventable diseases such as Malaria and Malnutrition. We continue to help villagers and their children from succumbing to these tragic illnesses but with so many needing our help, we need your help too!
Our aim remains "to lift families out of abject poverty and give them a chance." We do this be providing a package of sustainable projects that enable whole communities to build a future for their children, and their children, and so on. Key to this is teaching them how to run the projects themselves but they also need simple things such as mosquito nets and blankets to protect their tiny offspring.
The five villages that we will adopt this year have now been chosen from a heart-breaking shortlist of 18. All of those that applied for our help reported children dying from malaria and malnutrition just last year, but we cannot help them all.
We would help them if we could, but it would take more money than we have. However, we cannot just abandon them - how can we when the rest of the world has turned its back on Darfur? There are 5,200 families in these 13 villages with children under 10. The smallest children are the most vulnerable. Malaria is still the biggest killer across Africa. We do everything possible to prevent catastrophes, and children dying from malaria is a catastrophe. We are determined to provide all these families with mosquito nets before the next rains in July.
Will you help please?
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