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Help our family prevent malaria and protect lives. We are launching The Sofie Project which we believe will make a huge difference towards the global effort to eradicate malaria.
We are the Joneses, a family with five children, Samuel, Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah and TJ (Tamara) and a dad (Andrew).
In 2016 we lost Debbie, loving mother and wife, to malaria in Ethiopia. Andrew barely survived his malaria but managed to return from Africa with TJ to join the other kids for Debbie's memorial. We really miss Debbie, more than we can say. But we feel her death was not pointless.
We have banded together to create The Sofie Project (Sofie is the name Debbie was given in The Gambia) to help combat malaria and other insect borne diseases globally. We believe we can make a huge impact to prevent other families losing their mother, or their father, or their children.
Over a million people a year die from insect borne diseases. Most from malaria. Most in Africa. Most are babies and infants. Malaria is the biggest killer in the world and has been with humans from the very beginning. But it doesn't have to be with us forever.
We are trying to raise $6,000.
The money will be used to:
- travel to Ghana to work with partners and create video resources to inform, educate and raise awareness.
- create a dedicated website for our project.
- build a team of committed writers/bloggers to update and educate through regular contributions.
- partner with innovative technology startups including Livful, a new project developing a toxic free repellant that lasts for over 14 hours.
- partner with African networks of people who will assist with efforts towards education, research, distribution of solutions. And to partner with denominations and missions agencies such as CouldYou? to help leverage their potential.
- Create a basic training resource to equip Africans to understand and respond to malaria.
- Possibly write a book about how and why Debbie passed away and how it could have been prevented, although this might be Stage 2 rather than Stage 1 of our project.
- Raise awareness of the global malaria challenge and invite participation.
We are calling this the Sofie project, named after our matriarch (Hannah's idea). We are asking for your help.
Can you either donate or share with others who can help us?
Donations are managed by Next Step Ministries and are tax-deductable.
Next Step Ministries is a USA based 501(c)3 non-profit organization Tax ID: 20—028787
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