Saving Lives One Dollar at a Time

Many people are not aware, but malaria kills over one million people per year. The most unfortunate part of this is that it can be easily prevented unlike other diseases like HIV. People all over are rallying together to raise support to create awareness and raise funds to help put an end to the destruction causeD by malaria.

Lance Laifer has started an awareness campaign to get more people involved and educated on what's going on. Here is an excerpt from his facebook campaign

"On October 17 - World Poverty Day - we will attempt to blackout all the profile pics on facebook. This will be done to draw attention to the one million faces every year that die from malaria and to draw attention to the fact that malaria is a circular disease of poverty. It causes poverty and is caused by poverty"

This campaign is part of a larger effort to raise money for the proper drugs to prevent malaria. One dollar - notice it's not one dollar a day - will cover the basic costs of getting the right drugs for a child. Africa Fighting Malaria, Laifer and others have launched the highly successful "March of the Washington's" Campaign. The idea behind this is that each person contributes a dollar bill (George Washington had Malaria too). To see more about how to get involved visit

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17178141045

It just never ceases to amaze me that billions of dollars are spent every year on so many things, why can't we use a tiny fraction to help save lives? Below are more recourses for this cause.


Links:
www.malarianomore.org
www.nothingbutnets.net
Study Finds Africans Getting Sub-Standard Malaria Drugs
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/giving/12malaria.html?_r=1&oref=slogin