Matty the Mosquito

Poverty is hopeless and depressing. 

I’m Matty the Mosquito an agent of poverty—in the preventable disease division. 

I’m effective too. 

Every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria, and I get the assist.

 It’s enough to make a caring, God-fearing soul see red.

But who cares? Red is just a color, like the color of a blood cocktail with 50 thousand plasmodia, a genus of protozoa, several species of which cause malaria, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito,

swimming in a drop the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

Image courtesy of Compassion International

Fifty thousand is overkill when it only takes one determined 

plasmodia to do what needs to be done.

I look for people that are not protected from me so that I can suck their blood and leave them with my very own present: sickness and death.

Half of the world’s population, 3.3 billion people, is at risk of malaria.  It kills approximately 655,000 children per year; many of who are under the age of 5 and most of who live in sub-Saharan Africa.  You can help thwart my efforts to spread malaria! 

Today is World Malaria Day 2013.

 Lets do something in recognition of World Malaria Day, head on over to  Compassion Internationals's Malaria Intervention  Page and make a donation.

Donations to this fund:

• provide households at risk with treated mosquito nets
• educate family members on malaria prevention
• treat children suffering from malaria, chagas disease and dengue fever

This fund was established by Compassion because it is one of the many ways we are able to release children from poverty in Jesus' name.  A healthy child can go to school. A healthy child can learn and play and develop. A healthy child can walk to the nearby church and hear the message of Christ.