Worm Busters
How You Can Help

Your contribution helps PAHEF:

  • Treat parasitic worms
  • Provide educational materials and supplies
  • Fight disease
  • Improve health care services in communities in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Improve the lives of children, adolescents, and pregnant mothers.

What Your Money Buys

$15 Deworming tablets—enough to rid 750 schoolchildren of soil-transmitted worms, enabling them to attend school regularly and grow normally.
$25 A desktop tally/register used by a laboratory to count worm eggs and determine the seriousness of a child's infection.
$50 Treatment for 1,000 schoolchildren to rid them of the pain and disability of schistosomiasis, which is caused by water-borne worms.
$100 100 posters or calendars to put in homes or schools to educate children and their families about preventing worm infections. These colorful materials motivate communities to correct the conditions that cause recurring infections.
$250 Five Kato-Katz kits used by a laboratory to test for intestinal worms in 400 children—the typical size of a school in Latin America or the Caribbean.
$500 A microscope for diagnosing intestinal parasites.

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