12 days till Christmas!
Happy Sunday everyone!
Hope you all had a wonderful day and weekend. Well the week is here again and its back to the school grind for me. I have 6 finals this week and all I can do is look to God for strength. I'm just happy that the semester is almost over and that I get to relax for a month. WooHoo!!!
For my good deed today, I made a donation to the Africa Fighting Malaria organization. They work to ensure that no African child dies from malaria, by researching and advocating for effective, integrated, and country-driven malaria control in Africa and encouraging the use of high-quality anti-malarial drugs (taken from the website). Although Malaria is a preventable disease, it is the number one cause of death for African children under the age of 5. Children in under developed countries die from the disease daily because of limited medication available to treat it. I find this very alarming, because malaria is a disease that most people take for granted because it is so curable. I remember just taking anti malaria drugs whenever I had malaria, which happened often because I have an AA blood type, and feeling better within the week. Not realizing that some unfortunate child just died from it somewhere else in the continent. So I definitely will be making more donations to the organization in the future and I will try my best to raise awareness about it.
I encourage everyone to make a donation. A donation of $1 can provide 1 child with an effective treatment for malaria. Just $1 or a bag of potato chips can help save a child's life. So I hope that you all will consider donating to this cause, and help eradicate this "preventable" disease.
Here is the link for the AFM website.
Here is the link to make a donation to the organization.
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