Cover Africa was founded in December 2006 because we felt that Cornell University,
a premier university dedicated to producing globally conscious students, needed
to take a more active role in prevention of a disease that takes the life of one
African child every thirty seconds. Our goals are threefold: working to increase
malaria awareness on campus and in Ithaca, strategizing to help prevent malaria,
and distributing bed nets to those most in need.
We have hosted education events, such as documentary screenings, and have lead
awareness campaigns, such as national Africa Malaria Day ribbon distributions,
and malaria poster campaigns. We have started a Cover Africa chapter at Ithaca
High School which is helping to educate the greater Ithaca community. We are fundraising
for insecticide treated bed nets to distribute in Humjibre, Ghana.
We are also offering a service learning course which will educate students about
Ghanaian culture, history and malaria, and will send ten Cornell students to Ghana
to distribute bed nets, provide Malaria education outreach programs, re-treat
bed nets and collect data to evaluate our intervention.
