Kevin Adama Informal Writing #1

Kevin Yen Adama  Informal Writing #1

The couch; a place where Emily could see everything around her, either by watching TV or reading the billion amount of newspapers printed out every day. This was the place where everything else would evolve but would still be that same place for Emily.

Emily studied Applied Health Science at Warwick University, in the UK for the soul purpose of preventing ways for the underprivileged people in Africa not to die from this horrible disease called Malaria. Malaria is an easily treatable disease when spotted, but most of Africa doesn't have the resources to provide medication for people who contract this disease.  This disease kills about 650,00 lives in Africa, and this death toll is only due to malaria.

What Emily hated the most about this situation was the lack of concern from the general public, because most people cared about their money (stock market) and things like terrorism. The USA was so concerned about Bin Laden, but he didn't kill as much people as Malaria did, no one looked at it that way. Emily told herself that she was going to be behind that spotlight from all those magazines and be the a true hero whether people recognized it or not.

She met up with another idealist who saw the same vision as Emily, her name was Allison and so they voyaged to Chad, located in central Africa. they sent over thousands of supplies and this was either to prevent or cure the disease. All the young children saw these two women as hope for their country, and to be their savior they have been desperate for.  The kids gathered in the night, and held a special ceremony for them. Their perfect rhythm in dance and clapping got their saviors so ecstatic and even though they failed to fit in color and rhythm wise, the kids were unconcerned and joyful in their attempt to join in.
Emily and Allison were scheduled to stay in the remote village for 1 year, and had already spent 6 months there. There was a drastic improvement for the healthcare and sickness of malaria, but shortage of supplies was soon the problem for the remote town and the saviors. The care that Emily and Allison had for the kid became one unbreakable bond, and because of this they both stayed over in the village when the supplies had finished. The next shipment was due in a months time, so Emily and Allison took a huge gamble to stay with these kids.

In their first week of risky stay Allison contracted malaria, and obviously needed medical attention, which now was unavailable to them for another three weeks. Allison went from this bright smiling lady, full of joy and love to this person whose life was literally sponged out of her. She lay in bed the whole day sweating like an athlete in a full blown workout and vomited like a hose pipe. Her situation was terrible and Emily found this images almost unbearable. The whole village consistently visited Allison, singing songs of praise to God and giving her this mighty hope, because they all knew how strong she was.
Unfortunately the eve before the scheduled shipment Allison died and the whole village was in total shock and went into immediate mourning when the news was heard by the village people. Allison was rolled into this red cloth that had finely designed African prints on it. She was later cremated, and now the little village in Chad to this day still tell folktales about the two mighty saviors that came. Instead of Emily given up on her goal in life due to this unfortunate tragedy, she knew that working for other charities, who don't care as much was ineffective, and so with her sheer desire she started her own charity called 'Allison Forever', which is now the biggest contributor of saving lives from malaria in sub Saharan Africa.