THANK YOU to all who have donated to SCI
Your support is vital to ensure we continue to help the millions of sub-Saharan Africans afflicted with NTDs. Please continue your support by donating through:
A special thank you to Dr Toby Ord and Dr Bernadette Young for their initiative and for recommending SCI as a charity where donors can achieve high impact with their donation. 'Giving what we can' commends SCI as their selected charity.
Cycling from Egypt to South Africa
Lindsey Cole who used to work as PA to the Director of SCI has set off from Cairo with three colleagues. The four of them will cycle down the length of Africa through Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi ending up in South Africa in time for the World Cup in July. Lindsey has decided to dedicate her trip to Neglected Tropical Diseases and she will visit some NTD projects en route. She has set up a Justgiving page and is asking friends and supporters to donate to SCI, and we are assisting with sponsorship for her exciting trip. You can also follow her on twitter.
Our vision at Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) is a world free of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). This would allow the world’s poorest populations to be healthier, develop fully, learn effectively, raise families, and be productive members of their communities, thereby helping to realise the Millennium Development Goals of sustainable poverty reduction.
Neglected tropical diseases are now on the international agenda. The successes achieved to-date prove that the interventions are technically feasible, immediate, visibly powerful and highly cost-effective. They demonstrate that programmes to tackle NTDs can be, and must be rapidly scaled up. These people could be reached if only more resources were available; either; cash donations, assistance with transport (vehicles or even bicycles), drugs such as praziquantel or albendazole, and microscopes and ultrasound machines for monitoring and evaluation.
SCI is a charitable institution and all donations received go straight to the country in need.
These infections have a significant economic impact on the family, community and country as a whole, and result in billions of dollars of lost productivity. NTDs help to maintain poverty.
