{"id":5158,"date":"2010-05-08T02:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:27:34","slug":"against-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=5158","title":{"rendered":"Against Malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>help fight Malaria<\/strong> &#8211; in many languages<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Against Malaria is an initiative of the Against Malaria Foundation, a charity registered in the UK, US, Australia and a number of other countries.<\/li>\n<li>The Foundation was set up in August 2004 with the explicit aim of handling the money raised through World Swim Against Malaria. Since then Against Malaria has launched a number of other initiatives and has developed a significant number of fundraising partnerships whereby groups raising funds for nets, often for their own distributions, raise funds through Against Malaria. We do not take a cut or a fee so 100% of the funds these groups raise buys nets for them.<\/li>\n<li>As stated in the Articles of Association of the Foundation, the official document describing our purpose, our aims are:<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/AboutUs_CharityStatus.aspx\">full text Charity Status<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/default.aspx\">Homepage<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/AboutUs_MAG.aspx\">Malaria Advisory Group<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/AboutUs_Trustees.aspx\">Trustees<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/News.aspx\">News<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/nets.aspx\">Nets<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/findoutmore.aspx\">Find<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/Videos.aspx\">Videos<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.againstmalaria.com\/\">Blog<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/Downloads.aspx\">Downloads<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/FAQ.aspx\">FAQs<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/takepart.aspx\">Take part<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/Money.aspx\">Donate<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddresse: Against Malaria Foundation, Treasurer, c\/o PricewaterhouseCoopers, 10 Bricket Road, St. Albans, Herts, AL1 3JX, UK;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/AboutUs_ContactUs.aspx\">Contacts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/AboutUs.aspx\">About us<\/a>: Origin of Against Malaria: Rob Mather lives in London. In June 2003 he saw a television programme about a two-year-old girl called Terri who suffered 90% burns in a housefire. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was very moved by her story and rounded up two friends to swim and raise some money for her trust fund.<\/p>\n<p>What started as a three-person swim developed over the next seven weeks into 150 swims in 73 countries involving 10,000 people. 100% of the money raised went to Terri&rsquo;s Trust Fund. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimforterri.org\/\">Swim For Terri <\/a>took place on 6th Dec 2003.<\/p>\n<p>A few people asked &lsquo;What are we doing next year?&rsquo; Rob&rsquo;s throwaway line was &lsquo;Get a million people to swim&#8230;&rsquo; and World Swim Against Malaria was the result.<\/p>\n<p>We promise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100% of the money we receive will buy long-lasting insecticidal nets<\/li>\n<li>and they will end up over heads and beds<\/li>\n<li>and we will demonstrate that has happened.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From a legal perspective, Against Malaria is an initiative of the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF), a charity registered in the UK, US, Australia and a number of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Against Malaria Foundation:<\/p>\n<p>AMF launched and ran World Swim Against Malaria (WSM) on 3rd Dec 2005 in which more than 250,000 people swam and fundraised. 100% of the US$1.3m raised purchased 270,000 long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) which are now being distributed to protect 540,000 (mainly) children from biting insects when they sleep at night.<\/p>\n<p>The AMF is a charity registered in the UK and governed by the laws of England &amp; Wales. Our registered charity number is 1105319. We are also registered in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/AboutUs_CharityStatus.aspx\">other countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation was set up in August 2004 with the explicit aim of handling the money raised through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldswimagainstmalaria.com\/\">World Swim Against Malaria<\/a>. Since then Against Malaria has launched a number of other initiatives and has developed a significant number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmalaria.com\/Fundraiser_PartnershipIntro.aspx\">fundraising partnerships<\/a> whereby groups raising funds for nets, often for their own distributions, raise funds through Against Malaria. We do not take a cut or a fee so 100% of the funds these groups raise buys nets for them.<\/p>\n<p>As stated in the Articles of Association of the Foundation, the official document describing our purpose, our aims are:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the relief of suffering from malaria by the provision of funds for the prevention and\/or treatment of malaria and the advancement of education in the subjects of a) the problems and suffering caused by malaria and b) what can be done to alleviate them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>help fight Malaria &#8211; in many languages Against Malaria is an initiative of the Against Malaria Foundation, a charity registered in the UK, US, Australia and a number of other countries. The Foundation was set up in August 2004 with the explicit aim of handling the money raised through World Swim Against Malaria. Since then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=5158\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Against Malaria&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-project-partnership-good-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16827,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions\/16827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}