Drones against malaria
OUR STORY
Told and filmed on the island of Zanzibar
Told and filmed on the island of Zanzibar
Why we try a new approach to tackle malaria
Over the past fifteen years, the fight against malaria improved dramatically. Insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying resulted in an enormous reduction of the number of children dying of the disease. Unfortunately, it is not enough.
To further reduce the impact of malaria we need more. Tools that can be implemented outdoors, at the source of the problem – stagnant, sunlit water. The cradle of mosquitoes. If we stop them there, at the source, we may stop them for good.
Using drones, we will tackle the mosquito and malaria problem right at the source, starting with large-scale irrigated rice schemes. And use an environmentally sound biological control agent that can be applied in collaboration with the local (rice farming) community. So that they will suffer less from malaria and have more time to work the fields and thus generate bigger harvests.
Less malaria, more food. Simple and novel. Join us. Your support will contribute to a breakthrough in malaria control!
To further reduce the impact of malaria we need more. Tools that can be implemented outdoors, at the source of the problem – stagnant, sunlit water. The cradle of mosquitoes. If we stop them there, at the source, we may stop them for good.
Using drones, we will tackle the mosquito and malaria problem right at the source, starting with large-scale irrigated rice schemes. And use an environmentally sound biological control agent that can be applied in collaboration with the local (rice farming) community. So that they will suffer less from malaria and have more time to work the fields and thus generate bigger harvests.
Less malaria, more food. Simple and novel. Join us. Your support will contribute to a breakthrough in malaria control!
Malaria Facts
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228 million cases
in 2018 and 93% of these in Africa |
405 thousand deaths
mostly children and pregnant women |
272 thousand
are children below the age of 5 |
WHO World Malaria Report 2019 published! (4 December 2019)
We need you to tackle this problem
We do not have budgets for marketing so we depend on our ambassadors to share our story.
Our ambassadors share one story per week on social media to promote the work we do to fight malaria.
Our ambassadors share one story per week on social media to promote the work we do to fight malaria.
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"We can save lives and reduce the devastation caused by malaria and at the same time increase food production by deploying drones that spray biological control agents in irrigated rice fields in Africa and Asia."
Guido Welter, Richard Mukabana and Bart Knols |