“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito!”
Photo courtesy of Hodgdon High SchoolBITE BACK — These Hodgdon High School students show off a poster for the “Bite Back” campaign, an effort to protect children in Africa from the impact of malaria.
Every person in African knows this is true because mosquitoes carry malaria — a tropical disease that kills over 750,000 children each year. That’s one child every 30 seconds. In Africa, mosquitoes make a huge difference in the lives of poor families and children. And it all starts with a tiny bite.
Malaria begins with a bite, and the students at Hodgdon High School believe that they can join with the nation to end malaria with an even bigger bite. The “Bite Back” campaign is sponsored by Compassion International and Youth Specialties, to mobilize youth around the country to purchase 300,000 mosquito nets to protect African children from malaria. The students at Hodgdon High School are part of the generation that can end malaria.
April 25 was World Malaria Day, a day of unified commemoration of the global effort to provide effective control of malaria around the world. As part of her Sophomore Exhibition, Emmally Jurson, a student at Hodgdon High School, challenged her 10th grade classmates to join with thousands of other people around the world to help end malaria by donating $10 which, in addition to the nets, will provide communities with insecticide spraying, education and other innovative malaria prevention strategies such as special trees to plant that repel mosquitoes.
Emmally Jurson, Brandon Dow, Dan McGillicuddy, A.J. Acott, Skylar Richardson, Shasta Prosser, Zachary Turner, Desiree Foster, Kelsi Suitter, Jillian London, Taylor McGary, Alyssa Hutchinson, Jenn Lokos, and Chelsea Connors are some of our area youth who chose to make a difference on World Malaria Day.
This is just one example of the Community Service Projects our students at Hodgdon High School are doing to improve their world.
If you are interested in joining the HHS students in fighting this curable disease that is killing 3,000 children a day, log on to www.biteback.net and bite back! You can make a difference and Hodgdon High School is proud of our youth who are reaching out to help our community and beyond.
