Help Children like Angeline
Angeline’s dream is to be a teacher. Ours is that she lives to see her next birthday.
Angeline is nine years old. “When I grow up, I would like to be a teacher,” she says. “That way, I can teach children ways to stay healthy.”
Angeline lives in Madagascar, in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, where malaria takes the life of almost 1 million people every year, most of them children under five years of age. It’s not a place where many children’s dreams come true.
A child like Angeline dies every 30 seconds from malaria.
The danger comes at night. When Angeline is asleep, millions of mosquitoes begin to bite. And many of these mosquitoes carry malaria. Approximately 90 per cent of all malaria deaths currently occur in sub-Saharan Africa and most of these deaths are among young children.
A $10 bed net can be all that’s needed to prevent a child dying from malaria.
Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease. The most effective way to prevent mosquitoes from biting is for children like Angeline to sleep under an insecticide-treated bed net. Something so simple can be all it takes to keep a child safe from this deadly disease.
A MOSQUITO NET CAN BE ALL IT TAKES:
- $140 can provide 14 nets
- $280 can provide 28 nets
- $500 can provide 50 nets
JOIN UNICEF AUSTRALIA'S RBM MONTHLY GIVING PROGRAM
Click here to join UNICEF Australia's Campaign for the Roll Back Malaria partnership. One Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Net costs approximately $10 and can protect a child from malaria. The more money you give, the more children like Angeline you will help. Angeline knows how important a mosquito net can be: “If you sleep under a bed net that has been treated by insecticides, this keeps away the bad mosquitoes that bite at night.”
Join online or call 1300 134 071 today.