Some Reasons Why I am Taking up the Live Below the Line Challenge...

Millennium Development Goal no 6 - combat HIV/Aids, Malaria and other diseases

After volunteering in Tanzania last year with ICS I learnt how Malaria can affect a whole family. The costs of medicine even I found to be expensive so I could see how financially it can put a whole family at risk if one child needs urgent medical treatment and assistance. Families who already are living in poverty have to skip meals to be able to pay for medicine and very rarely are able to recover so become stuck in a trap with no means of escape.