Community volunteers

To fight this killer disease you must take pills daily for six months. But when you are ill, weak, far from a clinic, and busy with work and family, it’s easy to forget or lose motivation.
That’s why we train volunteer carers in hundreds of small communities. They not only find people with symptoms and get them diagnosed, but they ensure that people take their TB medicine and help practically and emotionally too.
For someone with TB, even simple things like being fed rice by a carer and given life’s essentials such as matches, salt and cooking oil, can help you to stop worrying and recover properly. Many of the people we help to survive TB go on to become carers themselves.
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People we help

Santosh lives in a one room home in an Indian slum. She works hard making and selling puppets for a few rupees but last year Santosh became ill and started coughing up blood.
She became weak unable to cope. She’d never heard the facts about TB. It was only because one of our volunteer carers was knocking on doors in the slum one day that she found Santosh before it was too late.
Now, not only is Santosh well and strong but we are using her hand-made puppets in our TB education sessions, held in the heart of the slum. Hundreds of children and their families are learning how to prevent TB and where to get help.
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What we spend
We spend at least 85p in every pound on our life saving work in Africa and Asia.
But the other 15p works hard too - for every £1 we spend on Fundraising and Governance, we raise £7 more.
Read our Annual Review 2010-2011 online now...
See our Annual Accounts 2010-2011 online now...

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Your money helps
£10 can provide transport and x-ray costs for someone with TB to access life-saving diagnosis and treatment in Zambia.
£21 can fund an awareness raising street-drama in Malawi where hundreds of people can learn vital facts about TB that could help save their lives.
£32 can enable a community volunteer to provide support to a person with TB through their entire course of treatment.
£346 can cover all the costs associated with running a specialist TB hospital in India for a whole month.

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