Why a campaign against malaria?
For a long time, the ELCA has been supporting clinics and programs in Africa to provide health care. Now we’re focusing on malaria with a new intensity. Malaria kills 800,000 people each year, most are children under five. That’s a child every 45 seconds.
The ELCA, through the ELCA Malaria Campaign, is joining hands with eleven Lutheran church bodies in Africa and becoming part of an historic global movement to say, “enough is enough!” No child, no person, should die of a disease that is both preventable and treatable. Therefore the ELCA Malaria Campaign has committed to raise $15 million to help prevent, treat and educate communities in Africa about malaria and eliminate deaths from this disease—for good.
At its September meeting, our church council agreed to offer leadership in support of this campaign. Out of unplanned and unbudgeted receipts that have come to the church, our council voted to provide initial support for this campaign in the amount of $100. Together, through the coming months of this campaign, we will learn more about what we can do as a member congregation of the ELCA.
Why a campaign against malaria?
For a long time, the ELCA has been supporting clinics and programs in Africa to provide health care. Now we’re focusing on malaria with a new intensity. Malaria kills 800,000 people each year, most are children under five. That’s a child every 45 seconds.
The ELCA, through the ELCA Malaria Campaign, is joining hands with eleven Lutheran church bodies in Africa and becoming part of an historic global movement to say, “enough is enough!” No child, no person, should die of a disease that is both preventable and treatable. Therefore the ELCA Malaria Campaign has committed to raise $15 million to help prevent, treat and educate communities in Africa about malaria and eliminate deaths from this disease—for good.
At its September meeting, our church council agreed to offer leadership in support of this campaign. Out of unplanned and unbudgeted receipts that have come to the church, our council voted to provide initial support for this campaign in the amount of $100. Together, through the coming months of this campaign, we will learn more about what we can do as a member congregation of the ELCA.