Pray for victims of malaria
An anxious mother watches her child fighting for life in hospital in Uganda. (Photo CBMI)
Christian Blind Mission International (CBMI) is committing AUS$2 million to projects in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
The money will be spent on medicine, health education, vitamin supplements, promoting the use of mosquito nets, and long-term rehabilitative care.
Where CBM supports the Anglican affiliated Centre de Réadaptation des Handicapes in Rwanda, malaria has reached endemic proportions killing up to 3 000 young children every day.
Of the children who survive malaria, one in ten will be left with life-long disability, blindness, deafness, brain damage or epilepsy. Many will die before their fifth birthday.
From East Africa, CBMI Field Worker Dan Ward has called for Australian support: ‘It’s a shocking sight. The children’s wards are packed two, three to a bed. They’re on intravenous drips through the head or wherever you can find a vein to get some fluid and medicine into the child. Please help us.’
For 100 years CBMI has been ministering to the poorest of the poor, those living with disability in the world’s most disadvantaged societies and it is asking all churches and Christians to unite in prayer on Sunday October 28, for victims of malaria.
John Jeffries, National Director of CBMI Australia said, ‘The malaria crisis is no longer something we can ignore.
It’s a waste of young lives that we can do something about. On Sunday October 28, please stand with us in prayer with Anglican churches across Australia to ask God for a release of his healing power over Africa.’
You can find out how to partner with CBMI in the fight against malaria by visiting www.cbmi.org.au or FREE call 1800 678 069. Contact June Steward 03 8843 4542 email jsteward@cbmi.org.au