During the first lockdown, Griffin Cubs had a zoom call with the Anbariya Scout Group from Tamale in Northern Ghana. We taught each other games and asked each other questions, and our groups now regularly stay in contact via letters and social media.

In Africa, 400,000 people die from Malaria every year. 200,000 of these are children. We wanted to help by raising money to buy mosquito nets to help protect those at most risk (young children, pregnant ladies, and the elderly). We set a target to raise £300 over the Easter holidays which would buy 30 nets (one per Cub), and ended up raising over £1600 which enabled us to buy and distribute over 350 nets via Scouts Against Malaria

Inzaghi (the Akela of the Anbariya Scout Group) and the Anbariya Cubs led the distribution and targeted remote villages that had little or no access to healthcare. They were joined by the regional commissioner, village elders, and the local news channel NTV who covered the distribution. Before distribution, the Anbariya Cubs received training from a nurse about malaria; what it is, the symptoms, how its treated, who is most at risk, how malaria nets can help and how they should be used (people had previously used them as fishing nets, carrier bags etc).

As a direct result of the net distribution, Anbariya Scouts have invested 17 new Cubs to their pack from remote villages (where literacy rates and opportunities are very low). Griffin Cubs got the unique experience of seeing the funds they raised go directly to a community and the impact it had (we have been told that there is no doubt the nets will save multiple lives over this rainy season when the number mosqitoes and therefore the rates of infection of Malaria are particularly high)

The whole distribution was filmed (see 'Griffin Against Malaria' video below) so we could share it with the parents and people that donated, and there is an audit trail of the money so that we can be 100% confident that all funds reached the right people and were spent appropriately.

We now want to raise £5,000 to save over 1,000 families from the risk of Malaria before the next rainy season, and we need your help to do it.

UPDATE (May 2022): We raised a further £3,600 which purchased over 1,000 nets for the local communites around Tamale (see 'SAM 2022' video below).