INDIA - Dr. Pratibha Singh
With the leadership of Dr. Pratibha Singh from the Baptist Christian Hospital in the province of Assam, India, over 40 “End Malaria - Blue Ribbon” clubs have been created and organized.  Children and adults have benefited from EM-BR club leaders teaching them about malaria.  The MFI/CKD partnership has supported their advocacy activities, reaching out to schools in neighboring villages; schools include Sastrapara High School and Rajiv Gandhi High school.  Most recently, they published an educational coloring book for children and youth. 

AFRICA

Botswana - Mr. Tommie Hamaluba
Mr. Hamaluba is a business, information technology and accounting teacher at Gaborone Senior Secondary School in the Republic of Botswana.  His commitment to “End Malaria” is reflected in his leadership organizing local malaria educational workshops and bringing bednets and political support to people living in the northern, malaria endemic regions of Botswana. The MFI/CKD partnership has aided Mr. Hamaluba through the purchase of digital electronic equipment to document his activities.  This helped his programs achieve high level recognition by the President of Botswana, the Ministry of Health and American Embassy.  Mr. Hamaluba has worked on SLAM and the EM-BR campaign in close partnership with Mr. Bill Meyers and his middle school students from the Dawson School in Denver, Colorado, USA. 

 
Ivory Coast- Mr. John Martin Segbo
Mr. John Martin Segbo, the founder of Stop Malaria International (SMI), has conducted a series of malaria educational workshops in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, reaching thousands of individuals.  He and his colleagues have scientific and educational backgrounds in malaria.  SMI has received support from the MFI/CKD partnership to expand their educational campaign of Scout Leaders who are empowered to go out in their community to educate students and their families about malaria transmission and prevention.

Liberia – Dr. Syrulwa Somah
Dr. Somah is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina and the founding Executive Director of the Liberian History, Education and Development, Inc. (LIHEDE), a nonprofit organization based in Greensboro, North Carolina.  He coordinates LIHEDE’s malaria campaign called “WE WANT NO MORE MALARIA IN LIBERIA” and the CKD/MFI partnership has helped to support LIHEDE’s educational brigades in Liberia.  

Malawi - Mr. Patricio Kulemeka
Mr. Patricio Kulemeka is the Country leader for Play Soccer Malawi (PSM).  Mr. Kulemeka is committed to Ending Malaria in Malawi by bringing malaria education to young soccer players.  The MFI/CKD partnership provided financial support for PSM to organize special events for World Malaria Day in 2008, also reaching political leaders.  Their goal and motto continues to be “bring malaria education to the Play Soccer communities”.

Niger- Dr. Mamane N. Garba Meidadji
The MFI/CKD partnership supported Dr. Mamane Garba, a Nigerien national and scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, to carry out a novel idea called the “Niger Summer Enrichment Program” (NSEP).  Niger is among the poorest countries in the world, and Dr.  Garba created NSEP for Nigeriens to help sponsor a summer head-start program for elementary school students.  As part of the inaugural program, which involved four schools with fifteen classes, the directors, teachers and advisors of the Niamey School System learned about the life cycle of the malaria parasite, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and the importance of recognizing counterfeit medications.

Nigeria- Mr. Muhammad Umar
Led by Mr. Muhammad Umar as their Information, Education and Communication’s
officer, the Society for Youth Awareness and Health Development (SYAHD) has embraced MFI’s concept of Student Leaders Against Malaria (SLAM) and End Malaria - Blue Ribbon clubs by encouraging boys and girls, youth and adults to learn about malaria. The MFI/CKD partnership has supported SYAHD by providing funds for transportation, lodging and educational materials to implement educational brigades in several states in Northern Nigeria.  SYAHD has been attracting governmental and corporate partners to help spread these efforts nationwide.  Like others, he documents how the children embrace the Blue Ribbon and SLAM concepts, and how they want to learn and help End Malaria.

Sudan- Dr. Carlos Franco-Paredes
Dr. Carlos Franco-Paredes, is the founder of the Southern Sudan Medical Project  and a Professor of Medicine at Emory University.  On multiple occasions, he and colleagues from Atlanta, Utah and Texas delivered comprehensive medical treatment and malaria education to villages and orphanages in the Wanyjok, Aweil in the Bahr el Ghazal State of Southern Sudan.  The MFI/CKD partnership supported Dr. Franco’s missions to Southern Sudan by purchasing necessary medications and bednets, and providing promotional support.  Malaria cases were treated and preventative educational information was delivered in these communities.  Dr. Franco was also able to provide deworming medications for 2000 patients, as well as multivitamins and 250 bednets.

 

Please visit the Malaria Foundation website at www.malaria.org for many stories and colorful photographs produced by MFI-CKD leaders, and others. The Malaria Foundation has frequent requests from other similarly capable and charismatic leaders in these and other countries; for example, Cambodia, Cameroon, Benin, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Peru, Zambia, Tanzania, among others.  We welcome requests from CKD schools and private citizens to ‘adopt’ specific partners or communities in various countries.   Our expanding partnership has much potential.   Thank you!