Real Life Stories
NamibiaBonafactious and Valencia Oroses
Parents Bonafactious and Valencia live with their family in rural Namibia. Their home is in an isolated part of the country meaning they are officially some of the ‘hardest to reach’ communities with little access to malaria prevention and treatment support. Their youngest daughter, Patricia is just one year old so especially vulnerable; children under five account for 85% of all malaria deaths in Africa. Bonafactious remembers suffering from malaria when he grew up, all too often this meant regularly missing school. Bonafactious recalls: “Many of us were suffering from malaria at home and missed out on our education. One time I was in hospital for two months and got very behind at school”.
Thanks to your support we funded a project to deliver mosquito nets to the Oroses family along with practical malaria prevention advice and information to help them live malaria free. Bonfactious is grateful for our support and relieved to have the nets and to know how to use them. He said: “I am very glad now we have the nets. I hope my children will be safe from malaria and able to stay in school”.
I am very glad now we have the nets. I hope my children will be safe from malaria and able to stay in school
Namibia is seeing great progress in making malaria no more with a 95% drop in malaria deaths in the last decade. The country is now progressing towards its goal of eliminating malaria by 2020 thanks to increased access to nets, malaria tests, medicines and education.
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Rose
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Adrian Siebo – Enrolled Nurse, Lisikili Clinic, Namibia
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Chief Nana Oteng Korankye
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