Snatching Africa from Malaria

Take a good look at your wrist watch. Look carefully at the second hand and let it count to thirty (30). somewhere on the beautiful continent of Africa, a child has just died of Malaria, just to mention one of the many horrendous illnesses and bugs one has to struggle for life with being born on this continent.

Sometimes I wonder how many children with the solution and answers to other health challenges like cancer and HIV/AIDS and bearers of solutions to developmental and diplomatic quagmires have been killed in Africa because they were helplessly born into a hopeless situation. This preventable waste of human potential is unacceptable. Even if you do not agree from a humanitarian perspective, the simple fact that we are holding humanity back in time by doing nothing and watching this diamond talents get extinguished by malaria and other preventable infectious diseases is completely enough to spur you/us into action in directing our energy towards saving the African child and the world in essence.

    

To paint a picture of the conditions in which most of these children are born, let's start with the bad drainage that mostly surrounds the housing facilities where millions of African children will be born or are being born at the moment. Then another aspect is the cultural practice of the people. One of such practices found among the Fulani herdsmen of northern Nigeria is the practice of abandoning children born with congenital malaria which they call " Pat Boje" in a separate hut for a night. If the child survives the ordeal which it finds itself, it is welcomed and considered a true Fulani child. Despite several enlightenment campaigns in the north of Nigeria, the practice of selecting the "strongest" child resistant to " Pat Boje" just like what happened in Sparta thousands of years ago continues in some regions.

What can you do when you lift your eyes from the dial of your watch and you are jolted back to reality?Its simple, Africa needs volunteers, experts, resource persons in different fields and disciplines that can synergistically contribute their energy towards lifting the African child from this quagmire. We need you. We also need donors to sponsor projects to rural communities to distribute mosquito nets, antimalarials and insecticides. Let's solve as much of the jigsaw puzzle that the world is by starting with the African child. 

MISSON STATEMENT Our mission is to create an effective network of organizations, integrating and amplifying their efforts towards saving the African child. We dare set out to identify the problems facing the African child today, down to their root causes, and finding solutions to them and implementation of the various polices/strategies both existing and new ones towards solving the problem of the African child.

VISION STATEMENT Our vision is to harness all key players involved in saving the African child towards guaranteeing a beautiful future for the African child and the yet unborn.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

1. To ensure that child rights as well as fundamental human rights of the African child are protected

2. To identify and understand the root causes of the problems that the African child is facing today.

3. To integrate the efforts of individuals and organizations in saving the African child.

4. To create a network in the various orphanages in the country towards improving the link between the child and the orphanage.

5. To fight hunger

6. To ensure massive awareness on the current position of the African child

7. To harness attention from the general public, organizations/NGO’s towards the African child

SAVING TOMORROW'S FUTURE BY SAVING TODAY'S CHILDREN.

We believe that the future of the world especially Africa is dependent on the little minds of these children. The circle of nature has it that today's children are the future leaders. We believe that the philosophy of children in a generation would be the philosophy of the government in the next generation. We believe that by addressing the issues that affect today's children ranging from child abandonment to child battering which are a violation of the fundamental righs of these defenseless and innocent beings, we recognize this and therefore initiate this movement to secure the worlds future by securing today's children.