Water for Fanning Atoll

Water For Life &  Fanning Atoll
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As part of YWAM’s Water For Life initiative, Allan often teaches practical ways to get clean drinking water in our Discipleship Training School’s and for various teams heading to the field. However, in 2005 Allan helped lead a small Water-For-Life team to our next nearest neighbor in the Pacific, Fanning Atoll, 900 miles south of us in the Republic of Kiribati. Continue reading “Water for Fanning Atoll”

Facts for Life

Facts For Life

FFLThe most concise, understandable, usable advice on Safe Motherhood, Breastfeeding, Child Development, Nutrition & Growth, Immunization, Diarrhea, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Respiratory Infections, Injury Prevention and Disasters & Emergencies.

Since it was first published in 1989, Facts for Life has become one of the world’s most popular books, with more than 15 million copies in use in 215 languages in 200 countries. The book is co-published by UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP and the World Bank.

FFL4edThis revised 4th edition of Facts for Life has updated information on the major causes of childhood illnesses and death, including HIV/AIDS, Emergencies and Accidents.

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Practical Approaches in fighting Malaria

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Only the female Anopheles mosquito caries malaria and only they put their tale up when they bite you. If the tail’s not up, it’s not a malaria mosquito.
 
 
 
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I took this with my son’s camera at the YWAM Clinic in Kangulumira Uganda. You can see the distinctive double dotted ring form of P. falciparum malaria (lower middle), and two schizonts (upper left)
 
 

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