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 Fighting The War On Malaria Worldwide

  The Dictionary defines grassroots as ordinary people: the ordinary people in a community or the ordinary members of an organization, as opposed to the leadership”. 

 

 

A BIT OF HISTORY

       

  In 2002, I wrote Skeeter Beaters, Memories of the South Pacific because I felt strongly that it was a story that had to be told. Through contacts developed over the years, I was told a horrifying story of malaria and its effects on ordinary people just like you and I. I was also told a story of a small group of men who successfully battled that disease to a standstill in just 3-1/2 years. Uplifting? Yes, but I was left with one yet to be answered question - why is malaria the number one killer of children in the world today if, 68 years ago, a handful of men could do so much with so little to overcome its damaging effects? 

  And so I learned there truly is an important lesson to be learned from our history. It is the link you and I share with the grassroots movement started by the US Navy volunteer group nicknamed Skeeter Beater and the first successful malaria control effort that they launched in the South Pacific. It was in 1942, that 8 medical and engineering personnel embarked on an eradication and control program in the Solomon Islands that in just three and a half years grew to over 2,500 men and women and spread to hundreds of islands all over the Pacific. At the end of the war in 1945, it was this grassroots movement that had successfully reduced malarial casualties in the Pacific by 98%. 

  Today, my goal with THE SKEETER BEATERS FOUNDATION is to give Americans of all ages a rallying point around a real, living, historic connection to the modern war on malaria that continues to affect over 50% of the world’s entire population. THE SKEETER BEATERS FOUNDATION will bring closure to the sacrifice of the original Skeeter Beaters while providing an example for a new grassroots movement that will be as successful today as it was in 1942. 
Thank you for your support! 
Dennis Cline 
Littleton, Colorado 

 
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