BEDNETS:  Many small villages are “off the road” in Liberia and can only be reached on foot or by bicycle. The agencies that supply mosquito nets (known there as bednets) do not deliver to these off-road locations. Such remote villages desperately need insecticide-treated bednets to help curb the huge killer, malaria, which takes thousands of lives each year, especially of the young. Close to half of the children born in West Africa do not reach adulthood, and malaria is the biggest killer. It is estimated that four bednets save one life from death by malaria.

Village Relief has been invited to partner with the mobile health team at Curran Hospital in Lofa County, Liberia. These health workers walk or bike to the small off-road villages, with populations of 50-100 individuals. They will pack in the nets we send and teach the residents how to use them.

This area of Liberia is populated by Kpelle and Loma peoples. It was the central area ravaged in the recent civil war, and many of the Kpelle and Loma are now returning to their villages, some of which are in ruins. They want to rebuild their homes and farms, but to do so they need basic medical care and protection from malaria.

The Nkwanta Clinic in Ghana can also use mobile outreach teams to deliver bednets to off-road villages.

BANDAGES: Village Relief recently received a request from a doctor in Djibouti for bandages and bandage tape. He wrote to us in June of this year, observing that his nurse was using scotch tape for bandages.

In his letter, he wrote: “Is there any way you could send us some sutures, bandages and bandage tape?” With your help, we can. He also needs antibiotics, Neosporin, aspirin, ibuprofen, and multivitamins. In other words, he needs many basics. VRF mails him a box of these basic supplies almost every month.

HELP US WITH OUR SIMPLE SOLUTIONS TO THE BASIC NEEDS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

YOUR CONTRIBUTION OF TEN DOLLARS will enable us to buy and transport a bednet to Curran hospital in Liberia, where it will be taken to an off-road village. Or it will supply 1,000 tablets of ibuprofen, 300 penicillin tablets, or enough bandage gauze and adhesives to treat multiple wounds in rural areas of Djibouti, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, and Liberia.

100% of your contribution will be spent on purchasing and shipping these life-saving basics.