From our Central Africa Medical Mission in Malawi and Zambia

Special Opportunity – World Malaria Day was April 25^th 2010 –

Prayerfully consider supporting the ongoing work of our Central Africa Medical Mission in Malawi and Zambia to prevent and treat malaria. Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through bites of infected mosquitoes. One in five childhood deaths in Africa is due to the effects of this disease, but malaria is preventable and curable. A key strategy is sleeping under an insecticide-treated bed net, but right now less than a quarter of African children under age 5 do. Your gift helps our clinics provide bed nets, education, and treatment for families whose lives are impacted by malaria. An African child has between 1.6 and 5.4 episodes of malaria fever on average each year. (Key Facts about Malaria adapted from the World Health Organization 2009)

     ~ Alicia Cortright / former CAMM public health administrator 2004-07

Donations can be given on any Sunday. Please mark your offering “CAMM.” Gifts can also be made online through the link at our website friedenswels.org.

You can learn more about the work done in Africa through our medical mission and about all the mission work done throughout the world by our synod by going clicking on the “World-wide Mission Work” link at our website friedenswels.org.