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The skit portrays a conversation between UMCOR workers, parents, and a mosquito about malaria prevention in Africa. [1] The UMCOR workers explain that bed nets are effective at preventing malaria and encourage their use. [2] One parent is initially reluctant to use a bed net but later realizes their importance after their child dies of malaria. [3] The mosquito argues it is just doing what it needs to survive but is then sprayed by an UMCOR worker, who explains how mosquitoes spread malaria.

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Malaria Skit: Script: Cast

The skit portrays a conversation between UMCOR workers, parents, and a mosquito about malaria prevention in Africa. [1] The UMCOR workers explain that bed nets are effective at preventing malaria and encourage their use. [2] One parent is initially reluctant to use a bed net but later realizes their importance after their child dies of malaria. [3] The mosquito argues it is just doing what it needs to survive but is then sprayed by an UMCOR worker, who explains how mosquitoes spread malaria.

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Malaria Skit: Script

Cast:
2 UMCOR workers (VESTS w/ UMCOR on them), 2 parents & a youth (play clothing, not dressed
up), one mosquito (costume provided)

UMCOR worker 1: Nets are one of the most effective ways to prevent malaria and is so easy for
you to make a difference in your family to help combat this deadly disease. Without treatment,
malaria's flu-like symptoms - fever, chills, vomiting, and headache - can lead to convulsions,
organ failure and death. Please have your child under a net to sleep (cover the youth with the
net). If a family member becomes ill, please bring them to the new hospitals that UMCOR has
built.

Parent 1: I don’t have much money and the nets are much more useful if I use it to go fishing,
so I can feed my family. One of my neighbors used the net for a wedding veil. We need to use
what we have to survive in this community. I have been bitten by the mosquito and survived. I
don’t need a bed net just for protection from a pesky bug.

Mosquito: (jumps out-came down the church aisle buzzing): Hey! I’m not pesky! Why is
everyone picking on me? I just need to drink your blood so that I can produce eggs. I only live
for a few weeks so what is the big deal? I live in standing water that could be a lake, stream, or
a bucket that was not emptied. I’m just a little bug, how can I cause you big people to die?

UMCOR worker 2: You may be a tiny mosquito, but when you bite a human and spread a
parasite called Plasmodium. Every 30 seconds an innocent child in Africa dies of malaria. You
parents have a chance to make a difference. Please use the bed nets that are insecticide-
treated and clean up the area around your towns. Don’t leave thing outside that could collect
water and spray your homes with insecticide. Spraying insecticide inside your houses last up to
3-6 months. (spray the mosquito& he falls down)

Parent 2: I wish I would have known of the importance of the nets. I lost my child to malaria.
Think of how sick you are with a bad case of the flu then times that by 5. That is how sick you
get and my little one didn’t survive. My pregnant sister died also. Now I help UMCOR to Teach
people how to effectively use bed nets and how best to protect themselves from malaria.
Without TV’s we use radio and cell phones to deliver lifesaving information about malaria.
Working to drain standing water where mosquitoes breed is the hardest thing for us to educate
our people on.
Youth: Please help me!! (come out from under the net) I’m scared and don’t want to die.
Malaria contributes to the death of up to 10,000 pregnant women and 200,000 infants each
year in Africa alone. Malaria traps communities in a downward spiral of poverty,
disproportionately affecting those who cannot afford treatment or have limited access to
health care. Eliminating malaria includes promoting prevention and education activities,
strengthening our health-delivery systems, training health-care workers in recognizing and
treating malaria and of course, distributing bed nets.

Parent 1: I now understand the importance of the nets & promise to use it correctly from now
on. I know I have to get my sick child to the health center for a $5 shot of medicine, even
though that is 2 days wages for me, it will save my child’s life.

UMCOR worker 1: The key to winning this fight is empowering people in Africa to achieve
a sustainable victory over malaria, which we will accomplish together. Improving access-to-care
by training community-based health workers, and delivering life-saving medicines so hospitals
and clinics can care for those in need. If adequate protection, education, and access to quality
health care are available, we can eliminate deaths from malaria.

Youth: Please help today with a donation, so we can work to drain standing water where
mosquitoes breed.

Parent 2: Give today to help us save lives. $10 can buy an insecticide-treated net to protect
sleeping children. $5 can buy one dose of medication for a sick child.

UMCOR worker 2: I encourage participation in Impact 100 society, you pledge $28 a
month(just $1 a day) for 3 years to help 100 lives. Or give $1000 or more to imagine no
malaria. You will be hearing more about this program.

Mosquito: Imagine: the spirit of Christ with us as we care for each other in our times of need,
for “God is not unjust; (God) will not forget your work and the love you have shown…as you
have helped…and continue to help them.” Hebrews 6:10.

Written in conjunction with the confirmation class from Wrights & Edwards Chapel U.M.C. by
Twila Hummel have permeation to copy and use in your church. May 2010

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