Community-based Leishmaniasis research in Sri Lanka

Please follow the shared request; Dear colleague, Are you interested in serving as a peer reviewer for a TDR Global project focused on public engagement and crowdfunding? TDR Global is a community of passionate scientists and experts who have been working with TDR on research on infectious diseases of poverty. This peer review will include a practical guide that will help low and middle-income countries’ researchers to improve public engagement skills and use crowdfunding for research. The deadline for registering interest is September 30th and selected peer reviewers would have one week (5 – 12 October) to complete their assessment. We anticipate that this would take 2-3 hours and all peer reviewers will be acknowledged in the final documents. We are particularly interested in reviewers from low and middle-income countries, early career investigators, women, and TDR Global members. If you are interested, please provide your details here: https://forms.gle/MK4vuaDycS1BBGZ78 Thank you, Priyanka and Joe on behalf of the TDR Global Public Engagement and Crowdfunding Team

Dear Backers, We appreciate you making the effort to come to our fundraising event for the TDR Crowdfunding Gallage project launched on the Experiment.com site. We had an amazing turnout, and we managed to bring in $ 1594 more in donations! Your attendance and support have played an important role in our event’s success—thank you. With your contribution, we’ll be able to control the sand fly and leishmaniasis disease in the Madawachchiya rural site in Sri Lanka. Your generosity and support are an encouraging reminder of why we started this fundraiser—to help the rural community in the Madawachchiya . With gratitude, Asha

We pledge continuous support for your valuable research on behalf of the society

Dr. Chathuranga and Dr. Asha, go for it!! All the very best wishes from Christine and Ranahansa

This is indeed a great project. I hope your research team will be able to find practical solutions to eliminate this vector-borne zoonotic disease from the affected communities in Sri Lanka. I'm excited to see the results in the near future. All the best!

Dear Backers, We have fantastic news to share with you. We have completed our crowdfunding campaign. Thank you very much for the generosity you have shown during the fundraising phase. We have 3 full days left of our fundraiser and we are overwhelmed by the generosity and excitement for our campaign our community has shown. We’ve raised over our $ 5650 by $ 159. We have 83 supporters and that is absolutely inspiring. We will keep you updated once the project launch. Thank you very much for everything that you’ve done!

Excellent news! all the best with the project.

Best of Luck

Hey everybody! Thanks for all of your support thus far for our crowdfunding campaign [https://experiment.com/projects/community-based-leishmaniasis-research-in-sri-lanka]! Thank you to everyone who has funded, shared, and gotten involved – we are so grateful for your support! We want to keep you posted on what we have accomplished so far: We raised 39% (2,183 USD) of the funds! Right now, we have 14 days and we still need to raise 3,467 USD of 5,650 USD that will allow us to control the sand fly and leishmaniasis disease in the Madawachchiya rural site in Sri Lanka. We are very excited to get this campaign off the ground! We are determined to meet and hopefully even exceed our goal, but we can’t do it without you. Please consider making a contribution and pass our campaign on to as many people as you can and help us get the rest of the way there. Sincerely, Thank you!

I am excited for the scientific discovery, Good luck!

Dear Dr. Asha Wijegunawardana, Best wishes to you and your team in securing the financials for your important project. Neglected tropical disease research is so important. Sincerely, Edward

Dear All, Thank you for your generous gift to our TDR crowdfunding project. We are thrilled to have your support. Through your donation, we will be able to accomplish our project goal of reducing sandfly bites and leishmaniasis disease in the Madawachchiya area and continue working towards the health security of these rural communities. All of you truly make a difference for us, and we are extremely grateful!

Dear Buddhika and Team, all thumps up. Hope you get the funding together fast and achieve the desired results! Practical education is the key! Best regards from Germany Dr. Michael Knaus

Thank you Susantha Dissanayake. We are on our way to start project work with our team of scientists in mid-March. Stay tuned for updates!

Very good luck with this project