Malaria is the lynchpin, because malaria causes poverty. Malaria makes people sick, kills children, burdens hospitals, and saps the economy. It drains energy from individuals and the whole system. Malaria halts progress.

Disease: Changing the Cycles

Why Focus on Africa? Africa has the worst of the problems, including 90% of the Deaths from Malaria.

Africa has a lot of problems. Africa has these problems all at once. It is overburdened. The people are overburdened. The health care system is overburdened. The economy is mired down. The system is caught in vicious cycles of poverty, disease, debt and misery.

Why focus on Malaria? Malaria is a key to these problems. Malaria is the lynchpin, because malaria causes poverty. Malaria makes people sick, kills children, burdens hospitals, and saps the economy. It drains energy from individuals and the whole system. Malaria halts progress. We can make a dent in Malaria.

The Rotary Model applies across silos. It operates systematically. Some simple inputs, including Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs), lift multiple burdens. Specifically, ITNs lift the burden from the human immune system, lower hospital visits by 25-40% overall, and put $10-100 into the economy per healthy working adult. ITNs create a virtuous cycle. Every dollar spent on nets puts money back into the economy.

This information is so new it hasn't hit the scientific journals yet, except in small pieces. No one has put it together, even those working within The Rotary Model. Everyone is still figuring this out. Meanwhile, every day, every minute kids are dying who could be saved. We know what to do, we have willing partners and proven, reliable methods.

Money
What's slowing progress: money. Our partners are so busy working on raising the funds for measles that they do not have the resources to go after ITN donations. That's why we are writing this. In order to piggyback on the Measles Campaigns, it is up to us to raise funds.

We have arranged reliable charities to channel donations direct to buying mosquito nets and medicines with low or no overhead, who actually are helping to match the money we are raising. Our bang for buck is multiplied.

What an opportunity to make a difference!