Real Life Stories
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Alan decided to forego presents for his 60th birthday and instead celebrate it by raising money for Malaria No More UK.
Alan’s wife and children, Ann, Alison, Alex, and Andrew set up a JustGiving page to make it easy for friends and family to donate. Alison said “my Dad is a nightmare to buy presents for so we decided to organise something a little more creative for his special birthday!”
Alan and his family chose to support Malaria No More UK after seeing its devastating effects when they were living in Kenya and the Far East. In just over a month they raised an amazing £1,312.90 – enough to buy 262 bed nets!
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Peter Moszynski
Some years ago when I first went to work in Africa as a wide-eyed novice aid worker, fresh out of college, I had my first close encounter with tropical diseases.
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Baroness D’Souza
When I was working in Mozambique during the civil war in the 1980s, I travelled to the north to meet a group of people
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Jemma Berwick
Jemma Berwick suffered from the deadliest form of malaria when volunteering in a children’s hospital in Ghana.
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Clair Drage
Clair completed two impressive feats of endurance within the space of a month to raise funds for the fight against malaria.
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Mamas Otsieditse and Amos
If you are a volunteer health worker in Botswana, you’re also a life saver. ‘Mamas’ Otsieditse and Amos volunteer in their local community to raise vital awareness about the life threatening dangers of malaria and how to prevent it.
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Shoshana Court
In January, when I came to Sekondi/Takoradi on the West Coast of Ghana, I was so excited!
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Thomas Sandow, Ghanaian Malaria Volunteer, 28
I volunteer with a malaria prevention project in my community, Dromankuma, in Ghana’s Ashanti Region. Volunteering was an easy decision for me: I want to do all I can to help prevent others from going through the pain endured by my two year old daughter Irene when she had severe malaria last year.
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Rashida Seidu, Malaria Volunteer
Rashida is 22 years old and from Dromankuma in Ghana’s Ashanti Region. She’s just completed senior high school and hopes to train to become a teacher. She has also been volunteering with a local malaria campaign giving out mosquito nets and sharing malaria education in her community.
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Rra Poroto
Okavango Region of Botswana, a country that has cut malaria cases by more than half in the last decade. He’s been championing malaria education campaigns as part of a malaria prevention programme that we helped fund last year, thanks to your support.
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Doreen Tetteh
New Mum Doreen and her husband live with their six month old baby boy, John, in Ghana, a country where 100% of the population are at risk from malaria.
