About Worm Busters

In America, when people want to tell you something important, they say "I'm going to give you my two cents."

Go ahead. Give us your two cents.

Please.

Without your two cents, nearly two billion children and pregnant women will continue to suffer the harmful and insidious effects of intestinal worm infestation.

Without your help, the number of people who suffer severe and permanent impairments because of untreated worm infections—300 million—will stay right there in the millions.

Intestinal worms are transmitted by soil or water. They siphon away important nutrients, energy, appetite, and health from children who are trying to grow and to learn. They threaten the health of mothers hoping to deliver healthy babies.

The Amazing Exponential Power
of Two Cents ^*


One $4 cappuccino One month … ($120)	= =	treats 200 children** treats 6,000 children

One $3 gallon of gas One month … ($90)	= =	treats 150 children** treats 4,500 children

One $1 bottled water One month … ($30)	= =	treats 50 children** treats 1,500 children

Your donations to the Worm Busters Campaign help provide badly-needed supplies like deworming tablets, diagnostic equipment, and support for community programs to promote healthier environments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

* Cost in US$ for one deworming tablet.
** Single dose treatment for soil-transmitted worms.

In Latin America and the Caribbean—countries like Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela—tropical climates and inadequate sanitation make it especially easy for children to become infected.

The good news is the cure is safe, cheap, and effective. Just two cents* buy one chewable, fruit-flavored deworming tablet. They're easy to administer and the impact is nearly immediate. Within two days, children exhibit increased energy and appetite. Lethargy and inattention in the classroom disappear. Absenteeism drops.

We know what to do. We need your help getting it done.

You're someone who understands the power that lies in meeting the basic needs of a child. Consider contributing to Worm Busters.

Go on. Give us your two cents.

The Worm Busters Campaign treats intestinal worm infections.

Single focus. Dramatic effect.

A priority project of the Pan American Education and Health Foundation (PAHEF), the Worm Busters Campaign fights the problem of intestinal worm infections by raising funds to treat infected persons in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Campaign efforts include providing deworming tablets to local schools, clinics, as well as community, church and women's organizations where large numbers of residents can gather to be treated. Only two treatments per year are needed to significantly reduce illness.

Contributions to the Worm Busters Campaign also help provide diagnostic equipment, and educational and promotional materials to prevent further outbreaks within the community.

The goal of PAHEF's Worm Busters Campaign, together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other members of Partners for Parasite Control (PPC), is to ensure that 75 percent of all at-risk, school-age children receive regular deworming treatments by 2010.

Worm Busters is dedicated to fighting one of today's most persistent health problems.

Case in Point: Brazil

Thanks to efforts coordinated by INMED, a non-governmental organization in Brazil, treatment for intestinal worms was made part of a nation-wide preventive health education program targeting more than 450,000 children and their parents. INMED reports that, in three years, infection rates in participating schools decreased by as much as 50 percent.

Deworming changes lives for the better. Fast. Help Worm Busters spread better lives to more of Latin America and the Caribbean.