Malaria

According to the WHO, there were 219 million malaria cases in 2017 that led to 435,000 deaths.

Of these, 61 per cent (266,000) were children under 5 years of age.

Malaria costs Africa an estimated $12 billion in lost productivity.

Almost half the world's population is at risk of malaria (1)

There were an estimated 214 million new cases of malaria in 2015(1)

Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 89% of all malaria cases worldwide.(1)

Lack of clean water sources affects more than 2 billion people around the world, which hinders social and economic development.(2)

In 2012, it was estimated that at least 1.8 billion people were exposed to contaminated drinking water.

Half of the primary schools in Africa do not have clean drinking water(3)

Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrheal diseases. (4)

As of 2013, 59 million children and 65 million adolescents were not in school (5)

More than half of children that have not enrolled in school live in sub-Saharan Africa.(6)

As of 2015, 757 million adults still lack basic reading and writing skills. (7)

In developing, low-income countries, every additional year of education can increase a person’s future income by an average of 10%.(8)