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InterVarsity, other orgs combine to help end malaria
By Tyeisha Prior
On May 2, 2013
You can get it from something as small as a mosquito, yet it reproduces quickly enough to kill
nearly 750,000 children in Africa each year. Its biggest victims are those under the age of five.
Malaria is a disease that affects thousands of lives daily, and the InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship is doing its part to try and stop it with the End Malaria 2015 campaign last Thursday
in Assembly Hall 2.
End Malaria 2015 is a worldwide campaign through the involvement of communities, churches
and college campuses to spread awareness about malaria. It started in 2010, with a goal of ending
malaria deaths by 2015 through donations and spreading awareness.
The campaign also challenges and urges people to contact and call senators, representatives and
the president to enforce the President Malaria Initiative.
In 2005, former President George W. Bush launched the President's Malaria Initiative. This is a
five-year program that helps reduce the spread of malaria in Africa and other countries through
the help of government resources.
The United States must increase funding to at least $1 billion a year to fight malaria effectively,
which End Malaria 2015 is pushing the government to do in order to keep its commitment.
President Obama promised to continue this initiative and partner with local and global
organizations to fight malaria.
While malaria is preventable through inexpensive methods, including insecticide and mosquito
nets, many people are still affected to this day.
InterVarsity president Emily Tunstall-Frack said that the organization has done this event in
previous years, but decided to bring it back.
"We thought it would be a great opportunity to practically do something that people can do just
in the world," she said. "Also, through the different organizations, we want to find ways that we
can bring awareness to the campus in general so that people can help, and also the factor of the
healing and justice, without it being shoved in your face."
InterVarsity collaborated with other campus organizations, including NYPIRG, the Pan African
Student Organization, the Campus Roleplaying Anime Gaming Group and the S.P.I.R.I.T.
Gospel Choir.
NYPIRG, the Campus Roleplaying Anime Gaming Group and the Pan African Students
Organization provided additional information about the End Malaria campaign by tabling in
the student union and outside in the quad. The Campus Roleplaying Anime Gaming Group
demonstrated how to use mosquito nets, and S.P.I.R.I.T sang a song during the end of the
program.
InterVarsity also provided videos giving more information to students about the End Malaria
campaign.
Steve Schenk, pastor at The Vineyard, was also invited to speak and discuss how faith correlates
with the End Malaria campaign.
Also during the event, the organization handed out petitions for students to sign in the union.
Vice President Amanda Clay said that the organization had about 400 to 500 petitions to hand
out to students.
"We're anticipating more than that, so we're going to print off extra petitions as backup to be
able to keep it going and not say, 'We're done, we ran out'. I hope to exceed that considering
how many students we have on campus and how many care about social justice issues," Clay
said.
While there was no specific amount of petitions that they wanted signed, Tunstall-Frack said that
she wanted to get as many as possible signed.
InterVarsity also drew out a map of Africa where students could write and draw messages in
each of the squares provided on the map.
InterVarsity's Outreach Coordinator Amanda Finnegan said that the main goal of their campaign
is to spread awareness to Buffalo State students.
"What we really want to do by it is show that malaria is something that is still drastically killing
children and women around the world. We talk to kids on campus and they're like, 'What's
that?' But they don't realize that it's a global issue, so we want to raise awareness to show
what's going on there and give out facts and getting as many signatures as possible," Finnegan
said.
InterVarsity will continue their campaign by petitioning from 11 a.m. to 3 p. m Wednesday in
the student union.
Tyeisha Prior can be reached by email at prior.record@live.com.
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