2009 - October: Round Table supports us
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Round Table supports Malaria No More! Netherlands
Round Table Netherlands is a club for men between 25 and 40 years of age, and is represented across the country with 193 active tables and some 3,200 members. The club aims at promoting friendship and contributes to the personal development of its members. In addition Round Table Netherlands carries out service projects by contributing to society. We are very pleased that Round Tabl Netherlands has decided to join forces with us and help us fight malaria. Round Table International, through its member countries, is considering MNM as possible project to support.
Round Table, a warm thank you for your support!
The business world is also contributing
A number of companies have recently agreed to support Malaria No More! Netherlands. We received a donation from ASN Bank for one of our projects and the drivers of Rotterdam Central Taxis will use their cabs in the coming months to draw their passengers' attention to Malaria No More! Netherlands. Tana Netting is contributing in kind by providing insecticide-treated mosquito nets for one of our projects. We also received permission to set up a stand at the World Port Days in Rotterdam, where we were able to introduce our cause to hundreds of pupils and students. We are also very pleased with the recently formalized collaboration with Tropicare, which will take shape in the form of joint PR activities and financial support based on the number of Care Plus® Mosquito Nets. In addition, NCDO has given us a grant so we can carry out our awareness raising programme, Jab, which will be launched on Hyves and other sites in October.
We are grateful to these organizations for their contributions, and would also like to thank them on behalf of the African communities they have given a bigger chance of a healthy life.
Positive interim project results
The organizations that support Malaria No More! Netherlands have submitted their interim reports, all of which contained encouraging news. Between January and June 2009, the Theo Kiewiet project (Kenya) eradicated mosquito breeding grounds in 11 villages, distributed 5,655 insecticide-treated mosquito nets and educated villagers. As a result, the number of malaria infections dropped by 90 to 95%. In AMREF's project in Nakasongola (Uganda), some 10,000 people were informed about the importance of a number of things such as correctly diagnosing malaria, when to start preventive treatment during pregnancy and how to use and maintain mosquito nets. The media used to spread the information ranged from films, theatre and posters through to sports events and village meetings. These media are a good way of helping parents understand just how important it is that they go to the clinic sooner rather than later when their children come down with fever, and how starting treatment at an early stage increases their children's chance of survival.
Support Malaria No More! Netherlands structurally so we can continue supporting these malaria interventions.
Succesful sponsor campaigns
In the first half of 2009, a number of people and organizations actively helped collect money for Malaria No More! Netherlands. For example, Peter Hodes biked a very challenging 11,777 kilometres from Cairo to Cape Town. At the beginning of April, ROC Dans Amsterdam gave a spectacular benefit performance in a sold-out Meervaart theatre, and for World Malaria Day all of the pupils of CSV Elementary ran a week-long campaign that ended in a Fancy Fair. These three sponsor campaigns yielded a total of €14,100, a fantastic result for the fight against malaria!
The number of spontaneous donations we've been receiving from interested citizens is also growing.
A great big thanks to all of you! These campaigns and donations are a valuable contribution towards the fight against malaria.
Take part in the AddedValue campaign organized by van de Wild Geese (Wilde Ganzen)
Malaria No More! Netherlands has entered into a collaboration with Wild Geese in the form of a so-called AddedValue campaign. Working with elementary schools and regional education centres to emulate the successful examples of ROC Dans and CSV Elementary, and collaborating with sports schools and service clubs (voluntary, non-profit organizations) together with Wild Geese will enable us to raise more awareness about malaria and collect money to fight it. Wild Geese will increase the yield by a certain percentage. Children from three HappyKids afterschool care centres will be active for Malaria No More! during their autumn break, and sports club MaxHealthClub has organized a spinning marathon that will take place in November.
If you are a member of a service club, elementary school, sports club, or a regional education centre and would like to organize a sponsor campaign, send an e-mail to office@malarianomore.nl.
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 Tropicare sponsors Malaria No More! Netherlands |
October 2009
Malaria No More! Nederland Arjan Erkel, Director Margret van Gaalen, Program Manager        |
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