Current Appeal – Neglected Tropical Diseases – Nigeria

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Your caring gift is urgently needed to help eradicate Neglected Tropical Diseases for good.

Right now, your gift will be multiplied seven times to bring healing where it’s needed most.

“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ.” – Galatians 6:2

In the remote villages of Nigeria, where roads fade into dust, families have lived for generations under the quiet cruelty of Neglected Tropical Diseases.

For children like 11-year-old Fatima, these diseases once threatened everything – their health, their education, and their future.

River Blindness, Elephantiasis, Snail Fever and Trachoma have stolen sight, mobility and dignity from millions of people in the world’s poorest places. With little access to healthcare, families often turned to traditional remedies that sadly did more harm than good.

A cbm-funded community-based health worker explains it this way:

“Before now, people used all kinds of local herbs for eye diseases. They’d rub things into their eyes or rely on concoctions we couldn’t even explain.”

The consequences of these diseases were devastating. People lost their sight. Parents became unable to work. Children dropped out of school to care for sick relatives. These diseases didn’t just damage bodies – they stole futures.

But today, thanks to faithful supporters like you, hope is reaching even the hardest-to-reach places.

Please send your gift today, and see its impact multiplied seven times to deliver life-changing treatment to families in need.

Through large-scale distribution of proven pharmaceutical medication, cbm is working alongside local partners to stop these diseases at their source. Community-based health workers – trusted members of their own villages – are trained and equipped to go door to door, ensuring no one is left behind.

Isah, a 22-year-old cbm-funded community-based health worker, is one of these everyday heroes. With a backpack of medicine gifted by the pharmaceutical company Merck, and life-saving knowledge, Isah walks from home to home, protecting families with a simple dose of medicine that prevents infection and stops transmission.

And something remarkable has happened.

People now ask for the medicine themselves. That’s the level of trust we have built.

Fear has been replaced with confidence. Hidden suffering has given way to early treatment. Children like Fatima can now stay in school. Parents can now return to farming. Household incomes are growing. Communities are knitted together and have hope.

Right now, you can help this quiet revolution continue.

Your gift today will help send trained community-based health workers, like Isah, into remote villages with parasite-killing medication that prevents blindness, disability and lifelong suffering. Even more incredibly, your generosity will be multiplied seven times, reaching far more adults and children than you might imagine.

Where the road ends, Neglected Tropical Diseases begin – but with your help, that’s where healing begins too.

Please prayerfully consider sending your life-changing gift today, knowing it will be multiplied seven times to reach adults and children in the world’s poorest places.

Thank you for standing with those who are too often forgotten – but never forgotten by God.

We have stocks of medicine ready to go – but we just need your help to get it to the people who live in harm’s way, in the Neglected Tropical Disease hotspots. Please send your gift today so its impact can be immediately multiplied seven times, reaching families who need it now. Thank you for your kindness!