October 20, 2007 4:26 AM
Ahmad SYAHD said...
Hello my dear students leaders and the leaders forming the leaders. let me start by saying that i too much love this blog,better than all of you. I learnt about it from my ever enthused colleague,Muhammad.we are going to make sure that student from Nigeria fully participate in fighting this persistent killer(Malaria). SYAHD is working towards that. How ever i have some questions to all.How often do you see a malaria case in your place?. I prefer this answer from the students. Before i close, let me give you some hints; With out going to clinic,every day i hear or see 2-3 Malaria cases in my community.Visiting clinic e.g my nearest teaching hospital, i may witness the admission of not less than 6 under five children in just 2 hours. What is the situation in your place?.Lets our students give the answer.
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Dear Mr. Ahmad,
My name is Riley; I am a 7th grade student at Alexander Dawson School in Boulder CO. It was great to hear from you, and learn how many cases there are of Malaria in Nigeria. In Colorado we have a disease called West Nile Virus. West Nile Virus is also passed by a mosquito, as is Malaria. Summertime is when most people have a chance of getting West Nile. In 2004 there were 267 cases of West Nile Virus reported in Colorado, and 88 people died of West Nile in the whole United States. Here in Colorado about 1 out of 5 people bitten by a mosquito infected with West Nile Virus actually develop the disease. As you can see this is no where near the number of people that are sick with Malaria in Nigeria, but it gives me an understanding of how scared people are of mosquito born diseases. Looking at the Mouse Story sent by Mr. Hamaluba in Botswana shows that everyone is affected in some way, and that we all have to work to encourage one another, and show that we care.
Mouse Story .
A mouse
looked through the crack
in the wall
to see the farmer and his wife
open a package.
"What food
might this contain?"
The mouse wondered -
he was devastated
to discover
it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard,
the mouse
proclaimed the warning.
"There is a mousetrap
in the house!
There is a mousetrap
in the house!"
The chicken clucked
and scratched,
raised her head
and said,
"Mr. Mouse,
I can tell
this is a grave concern to you
but it is of no consequence to me.
I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse
turned to the pig
and told him,
"There is a mousetrap
in the house!
There is a mousetrap
in the house!"
The pig sympathized,
but said,
"I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse,
but there is nothing
I can do about it but pray.
Be assured
you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said,
"There is a mousetrap
in the house!
There is a mousetrap
in the house!"
The cow said,
"Wow, Mr. Mouse.
I'm sorry for you,
but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse
returned to the house,
head down and dejected,
to face the farmer's mousetrap-- alone.
That very night
a sound was heard
throughout the house --
like the sound
of a mousetrap
catching its prey.
The farmer's wife
rushed to see
what was caught.
In the darkness,
she did not see
it was a venomous snake
whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake
bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer
rushed her to the hospital
and she returned home
with a fever.
Everyone knows
you treat a fever
with fresh chicken soup,
so the farmer took his hatchet
to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness
continued,
so friends and neighbors
came to sit with her
around the clock.
To feed them,
the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife
did not get well;
she died.
So many people came
for her funeral,
the farmer
had the cow slaughtered
to provide enough meat
for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all
from his crack in the wall
with great sadness.
So, the next time
you hear someone
is facing a problem
and think it doesn't
concern you,
remember --
when one of us is threatened,
we are all at risk.
We are all involved
in this journey
called life.
We must keep an eye out
for one another
and make an extra effort to
encourage one another.
Dear Riley
I will start with an apology for not replying you early, I am away busy coordinating street Immunization activity in my state. Riley you are wonderful. I am proud of you. Your write up is informational. I am delighted that SLAM are coming on board to share information, lets say kudos to master Bill Mayer, Mary, Esmeralda, Muhammad , Pratibha and others.
Riley students in Nigeria have gone through your write up. Their perception was that since malaria has been eradicated to some extent in the U.S, mosquito is now only a threat to us. Now you made us to understand that there is a West Nile Virus as an extension of mosquito threat to our counterparts there in U.S. Thanks for this information.
We are now planning on how our students will join you on the blog. I believe they will soon join you. You will hear their responses in the nearest future and become friends against mosquito and not only malaria, since there exist a West Nile Virus. They are enthused, because you really show them that we all a need to take care of each others. We are all targets of mosquito and together we vow to eliminate them.
Having heard about the situation in your country, I will leave you with SLAM of my country and others to share more. You will soon hear from them.
My name is Sani, 15 years old from GJSS Daurawa in Kano State – Nigeria, i was introduce to Blog by our SLAM supervisors (SYAHD team) who organize a Malaria workshop in our school and tell us about the global SLAM network.
We students from Nigeria could do all to see that; Malaria is eradicated because ending Malaria begins at schools, we are working in partnership with other students leaders in their respective schools and regions in Nigeria so as to come-up with tools in fighting this disease which kills our young sisters, brothers and friends while we need them to be alive. Ending Malaria in Nigeria depend upon the resources available and students commitment as leaders of today.
My name is Abba; I am 15 Years old SSS 3 student of Government Secondary School Tarauni, Kano, and Northern Nigeria. Your write up has been shared with us through SYAHD. Getting to know about West Nile Virus is exciting. Certainly my self and other SLAM Team members in my school never heard any disease transmitted by mosquito other than Malaria.
How ever members of my SLAM club are interested in knowing the followings about the west Nile virus. During our discussion, we all believe that the disease must be preventable as malaria, but is it treatable?, What kind of treatment?, How effective? Is there any resistance as in Malaria?, are the treatments readily accessible ?, What about the cost ?.
More over we would like to know how often do you see mosquito?, we all believe that it will determine the rate of the west Nile virus. Our members guess that you have little mosquito in your country.
Finally members of my SLAM Club are interested in knowing what a 7 grade means in your school system. We want know the Nigerian equivalence. In Nigeria we spend six years in secondary school before going to university. The six years are divided into 2, Junior and senior section of 3 classes each. For Junior, we have JSS1, JSS2, and JSS3 while for senior we have SS1, SS2, and SS3. Let us know your classifications.
Hi, I am Nicole. I am 12, and a seventh grader at Alexander Dawson School.
Actually, America has a lot of mosquitoes. They live in areas with standing pools of water, and prefer a hot, wet climate. I will write more about mosquitoes and West Nile virus once I get more information.
At Alexander Dawson School, and most other schools in America, we have a standard grade system. You start in preschool, which is for young children who need to learn their manners. Then you go to pre-K, which is short for pre-kindergarten. After that, you go to kindergarten. You then continue on to first grade, second grade, and so on. When you get to fifth grade, you are in middle school. Some other schools start middle school at different grades, and the most common grade is sixth. Then you just keep going through sixth, seventh, so on and so forth. In ninth grade, you start high school. You have high school for four years, and then you go to college. Dawson doesn’t have a college, but Colorado does. Every state in America has at least one College University.
I am also interested in your school system. Could you explain it to me? Thank you!
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