Real Life Stories
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We decided to use the quilt we made to help families like ourselves who do not share our good fortune
During 2010, I taught a group of friends patchwork and quilting. We are all family women with everything we could wish for. We therefore decided to use the quilt we made to help families like ourselves who do not share our good fortune. The quilt was raffled and raised £170 for Malaria No More UK.
More real life stories
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Abimbola Junaid
Abimbola Junaid is global campaigner on educational and health issues, including malaria.
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Gracie Connett
When I came downstairs late one night my Mum and Dad were watching Comic Relief on telly. I saw that there were babies with malaria. The babies were just lying there with no mosquito nets.
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Baker Hughes IT Team
Eight members of the Baker Hughes IT team completed the UK Three Peaks Challenge over the weekend of 6/7 August
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James Eley
How would you fancy jumping out of an aeroplane at 13,000 feet with one of the Parachute Regiment’s famous Red Devils strapped to your back?
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Gwynedd 'All Star Brass' concert
On 14 August 2010, Linda Williams and her brother Aled held a concert in memory of former Abergynolwyn Silver band member and friend, Barry Wragg.
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Helvi Kashuku, Field Worker
Helvi is an experienced 34 year old field worker with the Malaria No More UK supported malaria prevention programme in northern Namibia. She is motivated by her own personal experience of malaria, having seen her 12 year old brother suffer from the disease and spend time in hospital
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Kedibonye Motlalepula
Mum of three Kedibonye often worries about whether her children will catch malaria. Two of them are under five years old and therefore at heightened risk from severe malaria – which can be deadly in young children.
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Talata Mohammed
Working mum Talata Mohammed lives in central Ghana’s Ashanti region with her family including three adults and four children ages one, two, five and 10. Talata is a farmer and earns her living from crops she grows and sells locally.
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Joanna Awuku Gyan
Community Nurse Joanna works on the frontline fighting malaria in Ghana, where malaria claims more lives of young children than any other single disease.
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Edward Ahima Botwe
Dad-of-six Edward knows all about the dangers of malaria having seen each of his children suffer from the disease in recent years.
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Adrian Siebo – Enrolled Nurse, Lisikili Clinic, Namibia
Adrian, 24, is currently the only nurse at Lisikili Primary Health Clinic in Kabbe Constituency, Caprivim. There should be two nurses at the clinic but one of the posts is vacant. Annemarie Meyer, our Programme and Policy Manager, met Adrian at his clean, neat clinic in October 2011, after he had finished with the 40 or so patients he had seen that day
