Thunder Strives to Save Lives

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Saturday, June 18th, 2016
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

By the time you finished reading this, approximately 15 children will die in Africa Be the reason a child lives today! In 2013, an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes.

A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. Pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and HIV are the main causes of death in infants and young children. In the African Region, about 473 000 children die from pneumonia, 300 000 from diarrhea, and a further 443 000 from malaria every year. This is often caused by children having to walk many kilometers just to get a bucket of water for their daily drinking and cleaning needs? This takes hours every day and the bucket of water that they worked so hard for contains all kinds of nasty parasites, diseases and bacteria like cholera, typhoid and dysentery.

Thunder Strives to Save Lives Do a good deed, help those in need Spectrum Community School Grade 9 Business Class are doing a Fundraiser Spectrum Community School’s Business 9 extra-curricular class, is hosting a fundraiser in order to raise money to help unprivileged kids in Monrovia, Liberia by building wells in poverty-stricken villages.

Help us build the foundation to build a nation by giving returning refugees and locals, the basic necessities they need to rebuild destroyed villages. By providing a well, you stop the spread of diseases that quickly claim the lives of young babies and village elders. Car Wash Bottle Drive (bring your bottles by please) Bake Sale