BEDS AND MATTRESSES

The majority of the people in Kabubbu sleep on the mud floor on a bundle of rags, dried cut grass or directly on the floor. It is pitiful to see sleeping areas in their houses.

Many may consider this acceptable within a rural African environment but we don’t! And if for no other reason a bed and mattress provides the means, along with a mosquito net, to reduce malaria which is the biggest killer in Africa.

A mosquito net provides little or no defence against mosquitoes getting inside the net as they come underneath it. To be fully effective the net needs to be tucked under a mattress. A bed helps provide this facility and also a certain degree of dignity within the home.

Beds and mattress covers are made by people within Kabubbu to a very high standard. This not only provides a skill to the maker but it provides paid employment helping the person achieve both dignity and a chance to become self-sufficient.

Both essentials to show the carers we care.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP PROVIDE BEDS & MATTRESSES please click Catalogue - and select the items.