Real Life Stories
ukNadeem and Sarah Javaid
On 27th March 2011 I married my beautiful wife Sarah.
It was a really special day as we got to celebrate with all our close friends and family. As we already had all the toasters, kettles and crockery sets that we need we asked our friends to gift us money and decided to donate a proportion of those gifts to Malaria No More UK.
Making a donation through our wedding was an easy way of supporting this effort to make Malaria No More and we hope others will do the same.
Malaria is a cause very close to both our hearts. Last year I travelled to Tanzania as Faiths Act Fellow to work with communities on an anti-malaria programme and I saw firsthand the effects of malaria. Similarly Sarah has also seen the devastating impact of malaria while working in Sudan.
We have both seen the burden it has on the already stretched health care systems, the empty seats it leaves in schools and the worried looked on mothers’ faces knowing that their baby could be the next to fall sick.
What inspires us the most to give is knowing that malaria is a disease that is preventable and with a bit of hard work, deaths from malaria can be put to a stop. Malaria No More plays an important part in making that happen.
Nadeem & Sarah
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