Thanks for our donation of £707 to the Ebola appeal
Dear Mark and John [and Magor Baptist Church],
Thank you so much for your very generous gift of £707 to our Ebola Appeal. I feel like the generosity of people at Magor just pours out, it's such a blessing to receive your kindness, it really is.
Thank you so much for giving to this crisis. You may have read, this particular strain of Ebola has no vaccine and no cure and the number of deaths are sadly increasing by the day. Tearfund is responding to help curb the spread of the virus by using our church networks and partners to promote appropriate hygiene practices including how to bury people safely and how to get help. There is great consternation in many parts of DRC that this outbreak is a myth or a fictitious ploy of the government or even NGO's for some reason and so there is great suspicion around the disease and whether it is really a threat or even real. Sadly this means people are going about their daily business, interacting in ways that could spread the disease and in some cases attacking medical centres and volunteers out of fear. It is a volatile situation and one that could rapidly grow to something incredibly dangerous. This type of response through raising awareness about the disease and how to prevent it proved very effective in West Africa in a previous outbreak and saved many lives, we hope to do the same here. Right now, the team are installing hand-washing stations of clean water at critical health centres and border points. Your gift will deliver life-saving hygiene supplies and prevention support to stop more lives being lost.
Please pray for Poppy who leads the team in DRC and for the team, especially their own protection as they risk their lives to save others.
Every blessing to you all,
Serena
Serena Dalton
Partnerships Executive
UK and International Partnerships Team
100 Church Road, Teddington TW11 8QE
0203 906 3500
tearfund.org