SurfAid International has achieved a major milestone by completing its mosquito net distribution and malaria education program in the Mentawai Island chain, off Indonesia’s West Sumatran coast.
Since March 2007, SurfAid’s Malaria Free Mentawai program has reached 61,465 villagers - nearly 90 per cent of the 70,000 population - in some extremely remote areas.
Specialised SurfAid teams transported the nets up rivers by dugout canoe and hauled them through dense jungle to reach many of the isolated communities. The teams would sleep in the villages to rollout their education program, distribute the nets to each household and conduct parasite testing.
Since the inception of the SurfAid malaria program in 2000, SurfAid has now delivered 58,517 specially treated mosquito nets and malaria education to more than 300 villages in the Mentawai and Nias islands, which includes emergency relief work after the 2004 tsunami and the 2005 Nias earthquake.
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