Real Life Stories
GhanaAdwoa Pomea
Village farmer Adwoa works hard to harvest maize, cassava and plantain on her land in Ghana, West Africa. She suffers regularly from malaria which really sets her back as she lives alone and there is no one else to look after her crops when she is sick. This presents a double financial blow for Adwoa as she looses income when she is not working and she has to find extra money buy expensive medicines to treat malaria. This tough scenario is not unusual in Ghana where malaria can cost a poor household over one third of its annual income.
Adwoa knows that nets help save lives and is hoping that now she can work uninterrupted from malaria and increase her income
Thanks to your support, we have helped fund a mosquito net distribution and malaria education campaign to protect two million people in Ghana, including Adwoa. She is looking forward to sleeping under her new net and was grateful to the local Malaria Agent volunteers who hung her net and taught her how to use and store it correctly. Adwoa knows that nets help save lives and is hoping that now she can work uninterrupted from malaria and increase her income.
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