The seventh grade SLAM group at Alexander Dawson School Colorado USA has been doing numerous things this year. The first step for us was to make a power point presentation that we would present to the Lower School (Kindergarten to Fourth grade), the fifth and sixth grade, and finally the seventh and eighth grade. The power point’s purpose was to educate and raise awareness about Malaria and also to notify people about the fundraising we would be doing. The power point had a big impact on the grades we presented it to especially the younger children, who could not believe some of the facts and statistics we were presenting to them.
Once the power point presentations were done we started a coin drive. A fundraising activity where different grades bring in coins and dollar bills to raise money for mosquito nets. The coin drive was run from Kindergarten to the Eighth grade. In the end whichever grade raised the most money won a pizza party. Except for the sixth grade they were so excited by the SLAM project that they decided to donate the money from their pizza party back into the coin drive! All together we raised a total of 957 dollars. This money will be used to buy mosquito nets for the families in Botswana.
We all look forward to working on this project more with you all in the future.
Sincerely, Riley and Anika
Alexander Dawson School, Colorado USA.
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From The Desk of SYAHD I.E.C officer...
Dear all students and Leaders
Greetings from ancient city of Kano state – Nigeria. My name is Ibrahim, a science student representing science schools here in Kano state metropolist, during our workshop organize by SYAHD with support from MFI in 25th April (World Malaria Day), a series of lectures were delivered and students show much interest to join the SLAM global network, it is later we come-up with an idea to form a Kano state Leaders Against Malaria (K-SLAM) which students can select a representative from their school so that he/she may be responsible to post all the comments in the MFI Blog as we are introduce to it.
Thank GOD our school now have a limited internet access connectivity, and we only have access to computer laboratory once a week, but that’s now problem as long as we can find time to discuss and share more ideas with other foreign students. The WMD workshop session was educative & enlighten even though the hall was congested with students as they show interest on the subject matter, many were shocked especially with the global statistics and how malaria ravage our continent (Africa), here are some questions for all Global SLAM network students.
1. What is the role of foreign students to assist in eradicating malaria in Africa? Because we students have a great role to play as we are now leading the EM-BR campaign in Nigeria.
2. We have to correspond and establish a good rapport between us, so that we can save millions of lives in Nigeria. The collaboration between Dawson School and Students in Botswana is good, it may be good also to have such a joint venture because Nigerian students are now making a difference through Blue Ribbon campaign, more comments will be post from other students representative here in the state.
We thank you very much for all your support, both finally and materially.
Thank you and happy to meet you all...
From
Ibrahim (SS II students – Unique Science College, Kano)
Representative, K-SLAM (Kano State science students)
Dear Ibrahim,
I am sorry it has taken us so long to reply to you. We have been on our summer holidays and are now just back in school. You asked what the role is of foreign students in assisting in the fight against Malaria. Here at Alexander Dawson School we help by doing many fundraisers to send money to buy mosquito nets for families in Botswana. We also work to educate students at our school about Malaria and get them involved with the SLAM project. I agree that we need to correspond with students in Nigeria so that we can form strong bonds with other countries to help fight Malaria.
I look forward to hearing more from you soon.
Sincerely, Riley
Alexander Dawson School
From the Desk of SYAHD I.E.C officer!!
Dear Riley,
Thank you very much for your reply. We welcome you back to school, after been on summer holidays. I got your post from our SYAHD mentors who introduce MFI Blog to us; our school is closing this week for a two weeks break for Eid-El Fitr Sallah celebration. Likewise, your efforts at Alexander Dawson School through fundraising by sending money for African families to buy mosquito nets will certainly reduce the malaria prevalence for both young children and pregnant mothers who are more at risk of getting malaria. This really sound good, Nigerian school student have special need for that and this will be a high time for both of us to work together through EM-BR project and help end malaria in our relevant communities.
We had about you always, and just recently see your colleague pictures in MFI website during your visit to Botswana; we hope this type of partnership will be establish between our school and yours so that we can distribute nets and educate our community through your contribution / donation.
We can equally share responses on every activity we conducted including sending you a pictures, especially now Nigeria is one of the malaria widespread country in Africa.
Riley, if your school students and your SLAM club at Alexander Dawson School will work with our Nigerian school students, a lot of life could be save through EM-BR campaign by distributing nets to families and educating them. I believe we are going to make a real difference now and in the upcoming years.
Waiting to hear your response, please my regards to your teacher “Bill Meyers” who posted this comment in the Blog.
Yours truly,
Ibrahim, Unique College Kano
Kano State - Nigeria
Dear Ibrahim,
I hope that you had a good time at the Eid-El Fitr Sallah celebration. I just recently looked at an email and pictures from a teacher in Africa and was able to learn a little bit about the Eid-El Fitr Sallah celebration. From a spectators point of view it looks fascinating. I certainly hope that my school and SLAM club will be able to work with you and your school. I think that together we can definitely help fight malaria in Nigeria. I look forward to your response, and possibly hearing more about the Edi-El Fitr Sallah celebration.
Most Sincerely, Riley
Alexander Dawson School, USA
From The Desk of SYAHD I.E.C officer:-
Hello Riley and others,
Thank you very much for your write-up again; we resume school last week after a short break to mark this year’s Eid-El Fitr Sallah celebration. We all had a good time during the event with our parents, friends and teachers among others. It’s a historic event in Nigeria that took place twice a year, hoping we can celebrate the upcoming ones together with you and others through our partnership.
Our SLAM club members show their interest to partner with your school in US, this will help us to educate other students and community members through organizing EM-BR campaign, house to house education and distribution Of Insecticide treated nets to children’s and pregnant women which we hope your school will help part of this program to help in end malaria in Nigeria. We have 30 members in our SLAM club both males and females.
I will write briefly on the Sallah celebration to you and others in few days. Looking further to hear from you on how your school can shore up through this partnership.
Yours truly,
Ibrahim
On behalf of Nigeria SLAM club
The "Slam project" that have been started is really going to help to many students. They will learn many new things from it.
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