We are absolutely thrilled to have recently been awarded a US$15.08m grant by Good Ventures, the San Francisco based philanthropic foundation.
Enabling larger scale distributions
This is the fifth grant AMF has received from Good Ventures over the last six years and will again be fundamental to our ability to support larger scale distributions.
This grant comes at an exciting time for AMF as we work to build the number of projects we support that are of multiple millions of nets at a time, including helping countries close net gaps so that entire populations are protected.
Every single donation is important, no matter how large, in the fight against malaria.
There is a huge gap between the funding available and the net need. We never forget that every $2.50 buys a net and protects two people when they sleep at night, potentially from the bite of a malaria-carrying mosquito.
There are now over 206,000 donations to AMF. Together we have built a community that will keep the fight against malaria high on the international agenda. Projects we are currently considering require a further US$100m. Aside the occasional marvellous large donation, the overwhelming number of AMF’s donations are from donors giving less than US$200 and we are incredibly grateful for every one of them.
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We have just passed US$100 million raised since AMF started 12 years ago! Thank you!
This has been a 'grass roots' achievement by many people - 205,795 donations from 80,789 people in 181 countries and with no money from governments.
The last few years has seen donations increase significantly with the last three annual totals being US$4.0m, US$14.2m and US$49.1m.
The most important two numbers are of course for those we can prevent from dying and falling sick from malaria.
Whilst we can only estimate these mortality and morbidity numbers, we can be more precise about the numbers of nets able to be funded and people protected.
- Deaths averted: 48,000 (est)
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Malaria cases averted: 48,000,000 (est)
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Nets funded: 36,000,000
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People protected: 64,800,000
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Nights of protected sleep: 53,217,000,000 (53 billion)
Assumptions
- The number of nets able to be funded with the US$100m AMF has received is 36 million
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Every 750 nets equates to one death averted
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Every 750 nets leads to 1,000 cases of malaria being prevented
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A net lasts 2.25 years and protects on average 1.8 people
It is important to point out that these numbers apply when all US$100m has been spent on nets and they are in place. This is not the case currently as some nets will only be distributed in the next six months and some funds are still to be allocated to distributions. The figures give an idea of what US$100m can achieve.
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