Real Life Stories
BotswanaKetsholike Monginya
Parenting in Botswana is tough, especially when you run the daily risk of contracting a life threatening disease. Father of six and full time farmer Ketsholikei has got used to battling with malaria and although only 26, he has contracted malaria three times in recent years. These bouts of malaria will have brought his work to a standstill and left him unable to provide for his family. This is all the harder to handle because malaria is a preventable disease and there is no reason why Ketsholikei and his family should suffer.
The health status for my family has improved and it will continue as long as we use nets and encourage each other to use them
Thanks to your support, we helped fund a project last year which delivered free mosquito nets to families including Ketsholike’s who had no other means to afford or access them. Malaria education campaigns ran alongside this to highlight some easy lifestyle changes families can make to stay protected from malaria. Ketsholike has really noticed the difference in his family’s health since understanding more about malaria and receiving the nets. He says: “I learned a lot during this campaign and the health status for my family has improved and it will continue as long as we use nets and encourage each other to use them.”
Ketsholike and his family live in hope for a future free from malaria in Botswana where malaria cases have been cut by 79% in the last decade.
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