Buzz Off needs your help to save lives

Buzz Off Needs your help to save lives

Recently I had to write a report about Buzz Off our malaria initiative. For the last three years we have had an emphasis on Burma (Myanmar) and some of the stats are worth repeating because they are quite amazing.

Just in Burma in that last 3 years Buzz Off has:

• Distributed 21,151 LLIN mosquito nets (18,101 in IDP areas) that are protecting 63,753 people from malaria.
• Provided 21,110 Rapid Diagnostic Testing kits to clinics in IDP areas and other remote areas inside Burma.
• Treated 15,425 cases of malaria.
• Trained 395 attendees at malaria seminars held in greater Burma (Yangon, Mandalay, Lashio,Maubin, Hpa 'an, and Sittwe)
• Trained 122 primary health care workers in malaria awareness and treatment on the Thai / Burmese border.
• Trained 30 IDP medics in microscopy and maintained microscopes in 8 clinics
• Established 4 healthcare networks in the remote areas of greater Burma with another expected to be established this year. 
• Produced educational flip charts, and training resources in the Burmese language together with the establishment of a Burmese language malaria website with downloadable resources in the Burmese language. (www.myanmar.buzzoff.org - you will need Burmese font on your computer to be able to view it).

These stats speak for themselves and are an amazing accomplishment of which we can be justly proud. However, the outside funding for the program is over and we are now in a serious predicament where we have lost funding of $US115,000 a year yet the need we are trying to address in Burma alone are as bi as they have ever been.

In May this year the monsoons will start in South East Asia and with the increased rain mosquitoes will breed   and malaria outbreaks will increase and people will die if we cannot distribute mosquito nets into the impoverished areas of Burma where we have been working.

Last year in total Buzz Off gave away 14,280 LLIN mosquito nets. (These were given away in Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Africa, PNG and Timor Leste). This year we are aiming at 20,000 mosquito nets. For budgeting purposes we cost each net at $10, last year the average net price was $7.74 per net which means that with the money we have left over from we just buy more nets.

Each family sized net we give away protects on average 3 people and saves at least one life.

We need to rise up an army of people who will donate nets to help us to save lives. Do you have 10 dollars to save a life? Can you raise enough for more than one net.

Please pray about joining the helping Buzz Off to save lives in Jesus name.

Donations to Buzz Off can be made here

https://australianmercy.org/giving/ (select Buzz Off donate a net from the menu)

Australian donations are tax deductible. US and Canadian donors should click on the flags to find out about tax deductibility in those countries.