Kenya


Children with bed nets

Sharon and a mother




The BION project (Biotisho-o-ntomonko-o-nkerra, meaning health for children and mothers) is chiefly concerned to relieve Maasai children living around Lake Magadi from the burden of malaria. The project, which serves about 3000 children, is now managed by a committee of local mothers and is registered with the Ministry of Gender and Children's Services.



Maasai mother and child





A major success, made possible with funds from STACC and from Rotary, has been the purchase and treatment of insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) thereby reducing the biting opportunities fro the mosquitoes that transmit malaria parasites.
                     






 


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