The Sumba Foundation

By Barrie | September 11th, 2007 | No Comments

The Sumba Foundation is a nonprofit US-based foundation working to improve health, education and wealth creation on Sumba. One of the foundation’s major efforts is in malaria eradication.

The foundation’s Malaria Eradication Program has shown that Sumba Island has extremely high levels of all four strains of malaria and that 20 percent of Sumbanese children die from malaria or are brain damaged from the disease by 10 years of age.

World-recognized entomologist Claus Bogh has been supported by the foundation to map malaria infection rates and develop intervention/malaria prevention programs in Sumba.

The Sumba Foundation also hosts the international plastic surgeons’ organization, Interplast Australia, which carries out cleft lip and palate repair and burn scar grafts for the isolated island’s residents.

More Info: sumbafoundation.org

Source: Jakarta Post