
The mortality rate for children and mothers giving birth in Sierra Leone is the highest in the world. According to UNICEF, malaria accounts for almost 40 percent of all deaths for children under five in Sierra Leone. The statistics are shocking because malaria is a preventable and curable disease. The intense poverty explains these dreadful statistics. People know that malaria is spread by mosquitoes but they can not afford to buy sleeping nets or the necessary medication. Looking at this scene, I ask myself “What can we do to make it possible for people living in such a place to keep them from getting malaria?”