Since the age of five, a young woman has endeavored to save мιIIιоnꜱs of African children from malaria through her own actions.
Parents taught their children tolerance and amazing bravery through her work. Katherine Commale, from Downingtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, is that girl. In 2006, five-year-old Katherine watched a PBS show called “Fighting Malaria” with great interest. The sickness, which killed an African kid every 30 seconds, was new to her.
Katherine listened and finger-counted 30. Another baby died! “Mom, we have to do something!” said the child. Katherine told Linda Commale, “Mom, I can’t sleep” after watching the news. Next morning, the youngster questioned her mother about the mosquito-borne Ԁιꜱеаꜱе on TV. She told her kids mosquito nets may help Africans avoid this sickness. “So why don’t people have mosquito nets?” inquired Katherine. “Because they are so poor, African families don’t even have $10 to buy a curtain,” Linda informed her daughter. Little Katherine earned money for African mosquito nets. She gave up school snacks and toys to Pᴜrchase curtains for her African friends. Linda’s mother Pᴜrchased a $10 mosquito net for four kids at the shop with her. Linda phoned the African charity for the curtain.
Katherine collected $180,000 to provide 18,000 mosquito nets to African households before age 10. After this milestone, she learned that malaria deaths had dropped from 30 to 60 seconds. This inspires Katherine. Kindness and tolerance revived a 5-year-old’s good intentions. If the family doesn’t accept such ideas, they’ll be hard to implement. Parents should inspire and support their children’s ideas. Then we may see children’s boundless potential.
