Real Life Stories
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Tesco Bank Team at the Great Scottish Run
It’s proven to be a very engaging cause that we could all unite behind and it’s inspiring to know that our efforts will help save and protect lives
In early 2010, Tesco Global Finance Directors elected Malaria No More UK as their nominated charity leading to twelve months of fundraising activity across the globe. In China, Tesco’s Gavin Black was sponsored to grow an impressive moustache. In Edinburgh, the Tesco Bank Team rose to the challenge of the Great Scottish Run, and in London, Tesco Global Finance Directors organised a Charity Ball at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel.
Their efforts raised over £57,000 to help Malaria No More UK save lives in Africa. These funds will be invested in malaria control programmes on the ground in Ghana, where 100% of the population is at risk.
“Malaria No More UK presented a compelling case for our support as every life lost to the disease is unnecessary. It’s proven to be a very engaging cause that we could all unite behind and it’s inspiring to know that our efforts will help save and protect lives in Ghana”. Laurie McIlwee, Group Finance Director, Tesco
The partnership demonstrated the leadership role of UK business in helping make malaria no more, contributing to the global goal of near zero deaths from malaria by 2015.
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Team Stag Challenge
Ian Poulter’s wedding in 2011 presented him and his closest friends with the opportunity to arrange a Stag Party like no other. A regular stag do usually involves getting a group of friends together and going quad-biking, paintballing or out for a night on the town - at least, this is what Ian’s friends had imagined.
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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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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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Dinah Hawes
Dinah decided to join the fight against malaria when she saw a Comic Relief programme on TV about the devastating effects of malaria throughout Africa. She was struck by the fact that just £5 is enough to buy, deliver and hang a mosquito net to protect a mother and child from malaria for up to five years.
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Adwoa Pomea
Village farmer Adwoa works hard to harvest maize, cassava and plantain on her land in Ghana, West Africa.
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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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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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Chief Nana Oteng Korankye
Local leader, Chief Nana has witnessed the devastating effects of malaria in his community in Ghana where malaria is endemic.
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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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Bismark Amankwaah, Physician's Assistant
Bismark is on the front line of the malaria fight in his role as a Physician’s Assistant at Ejura hospital. “Around 70% of the 200 patients we see every day are suspected to have malaria. There are only two hospitals in this district and people come far to get here. Sometimes they come too late with severe malaria and it can be fatal.
