The Country Director of the Christian Children’s Fund of Canada CCFC, Mrs. Sanatu Nantogma has said that her organization is dedicated to the fight against Malaria especially among Pregnant Women and Children less than five years.
She said “malaria kills a child in every thirty seconds, while five hundred million people are infected and over 1 million die out of the disease per year”, adding that “it is the vision and strife of CCFC and our partners worldwide to create a future of hope for all children”.
Mrs. Nantogma said these at a durbar to mark World Malaria Day at Kasuliyili in the Tolon Kunbungu District. World Malaria Day is celebrated annually, on every 25th April, in order to provide education and understanding of malaria as a global scourge that is preventable and is curable. The burden of malaria is heaviest in sub-Saharan Africa but the disease also afflicts Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and even parts of Europe.
World Malaria day is an opportunity for malaria-free countries to learn about the devastating consequences of the disease and for new donors to join a global partnership against malaria. It is an opportunity for international partners, companies and foundations to showcase their results and reflect together on how to scale up what has been proven to work. This is thus a day in which organisations tell their own chapters of the powerful malaria story; a story of triumph and struggle; a story that grabs the world's attention to point it to the heart of the problem and engage the global community in becoming part of the solution.
The Country Director said together with five partners; Assemblies of God Relief and Development Services AGREDS; Markaz Al Bashara; Tuma Kavi Development Association; Presbyterian Farmers Training Programme and the Ghana Baptist Convention, in nine districts in the Northern Region, CCFC hopes to transform impoverished neighborhoods into fully functioning sustainable communities through continuing the fight against malaria.
She said CCFC and their partners have been fighting against Malaria through residual spraying, distribution of Insecticide Treated Bed Nets, anti-malaria drug therapy, construction of soak-aways, clean up exercises and advocacy programmes.
The durbar was attended by the Regent and people of Kasuliyili, a representative each of the Ghana Health Service, Ghana Education Service, CHRAJ, World Vision Ghana and the Ghanaian Danish Community Programme in Tolon Kumbungu District.
In an address presented on behalf of the District Chief Executive, Wahab Suhuyini Wumbei, a principal local government inspector of the Tolon Kunbugu district, Abdulai Zakaria indicated that six thousand two hundred and fifty eight Ghana Cedis from the District Assemblies Common Fund has been allocated to support various malaria programmes.
Mr. Wunbei said ten thousand Ghana Cedis from the Assemblies own internally generated funds are being spent in Environmental Health and Sanitation programmes for this year alone. He cautioned Communities to take preventive measures against malaria saying; “prevention is always better than cure”.
She said “malaria kills a child in every thirty seconds, while five hundred million people are infected and over 1 million die out of the disease per year”, adding that “it is the vision and strife of CCFC and our partners worldwide to create a future of hope for all children”.
Mrs. Nantogma said these at a durbar to mark World Malaria Day at Kasuliyili in the Tolon Kunbungu District. World Malaria Day is celebrated annually, on every 25th April, in order to provide education and understanding of malaria as a global scourge that is preventable and is curable. The burden of malaria is heaviest in sub-Saharan Africa but the disease also afflicts Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and even parts of Europe.
World Malaria day is an opportunity for malaria-free countries to learn about the devastating consequences of the disease and for new donors to join a global partnership against malaria. It is an opportunity for international partners, companies and foundations to showcase their results and reflect together on how to scale up what has been proven to work. This is thus a day in which organisations tell their own chapters of the powerful malaria story; a story of triumph and struggle; a story that grabs the world's attention to point it to the heart of the problem and engage the global community in becoming part of the solution.
The Country Director said together with five partners; Assemblies of God Relief and Development Services AGREDS; Markaz Al Bashara; Tuma Kavi Development Association; Presbyterian Farmers Training Programme and the Ghana Baptist Convention, in nine districts in the Northern Region, CCFC hopes to transform impoverished neighborhoods into fully functioning sustainable communities through continuing the fight against malaria.
She said CCFC and their partners have been fighting against Malaria through residual spraying, distribution of Insecticide Treated Bed Nets, anti-malaria drug therapy, construction of soak-aways, clean up exercises and advocacy programmes.
The durbar was attended by the Regent and people of Kasuliyili, a representative each of the Ghana Health Service, Ghana Education Service, CHRAJ, World Vision Ghana and the Ghanaian Danish Community Programme in Tolon Kumbungu District.
In an address presented on behalf of the District Chief Executive, Wahab Suhuyini Wumbei, a principal local government inspector of the Tolon Kunbugu district, Abdulai Zakaria indicated that six thousand two hundred and fifty eight Ghana Cedis from the District Assemblies Common Fund has been allocated to support various malaria programmes.
Mr. Wunbei said ten thousand Ghana Cedis from the Assemblies own internally generated funds are being spent in Environmental Health and Sanitation programmes for this year alone. He cautioned Communities to take preventive measures against malaria saying; “prevention is always better than cure”.
