CHAMA
Challenge AIDS and Malaria in Africa
No child deserves to die of malaria. Malaria is a disease of poverty because; it is treatable, curable and preventable. All that is needed is a functional healthcare system. We solicit for your support to give AIDS & Malaria the boot.
About CHAMA Mission
Challenge AIDS & Malaria in Africa (CHAMA) is a registered not for profit charity foundation in honor of "Goodness" (a twin sister to "Mercy") who died of Malaria in March 20th, 2006. Based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, CHAMA aspires to be Africa’s most vibrant community organization for healthcare and well being by treating Malaria, reducing poverty and the incident of HIV/AIDS infection in Sub-Sharan Africa.
No child deserves to die of malaria. Malaria is a disease of poverty because; it is treatable, curable and preventable. All that is needed is a functional healthcare system. We solicit for your support to give AIDS & Malaria the boot.
“We cannot leave some children exposed to malaria and other children safe. Our aspiration at CHAMA is, whether it is insecticide-treated nets, proper diagnosis, nutritious meals or effective treatment, the challenge is to provide protection and care to every child who is at risk”.
No child deserves to die of malaria. Malaria is a disease of poverty because; it is treatable, curable and preventable. All that is needed is a functional healthcare system. We solicit for your support to give AIDS & Malaria the boot.
“We cannot leave some children exposed to malaria and other children safe. Our aspiration at CHAMA is, whether it is insecticide-treated nets, proper diagnosis, nutritious meals or effective treatment, the challenge is to provide protection and care to every child who is at risk”.
WHAT WE DO
No child deserves to die of malaria. Malaria is a disease of poverty because; it is treatable, curable and preventable. All that is needed is a functional healthcare system. We solicit for your support to give AIDS & Malaria the boot.
Orphanage Home
Due to poverty and being unable to take care of her baby, a woman in Uganda chose to throw her son in a bin with a note attached. Learn more...
Education Project
If we must sustainably challenge the scourge of malaria in Africa, education is the foundation. Let’s give them a better education and they will take care of the rest. Learn more...
Water Project
Drinking water is essential to life, but unfortunately it can also be a source of contaminants and illness both in western societies and Africa. Learn more...
OUR STORY
It was a state of bewilderment when the ultrasound confirmed that I was going to have twin girls. “You are going to have twin girls” said the Doctor. “What! But no one had had twins in my family and in my husband’s family as that then”, I retorted. We were just baffled at the grace and faithfulness of God. Numbers 23:19 says “God is not a man that He should repent, has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken and He will not make it good”?
On that fateful day, being 29th September, 2004, the un-identical twins, Goodness and Mercy arrived, just 4 minutes apart. Goodness was always the happy and cheerful one while Mercy was always the crying type.
My husband got a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and travelled to Canada for his master degree program in May, 2005. Having been denied a family visiting visa which would have saw our family travelled together to Canada, my husband had to travel alone, leaving me and the 3 kids behind. “If you are applying from Nigeria, the chances of you getting a visitor’s visa are very low”, says Cohen, a Canadian immigration lawyer.
