Twenty-five free asthma devices will be handed out at the Hamilton Health Clinic, thanks to a St. George's charity.

The Bermuda Asthma and Allergy Support Group partnered with the Kiwanis Club, of St. George's, for there Children First Campaign which will assist kids with asthma.

The Kiwanis Club raised $3,500 to buy peak flow meters to be distributed to families who cannot afford basic health coverage.

Peak flow meters are portable, inexpensive, hand-held devices used to measure a person's ability to push air out of their lungs. They are used by people who need to adjust their daily medication for asthma.

Children as young as three have been able to use a meter to help manage their asthma.

Current Kiwanas President, Garry Smith, said the club believed fighting asthma was vital: "If you can't breath, nothing else matters. That's why we are helping the campaign."

And Bermuda Asthma and Allergy Support Group founder Jenefer Brimmer said the free peak meters were just the beginning. There will be an additional two phases to the campaign which will end in December 2007, though she did not say what they would involve.

She also announced that 15-year-old entrepreneur Meagan Wellman designed the asthma posters that will be displayed in Government health offices.

Minister of Health, Michael Scott, said one in five people in Bermuda suffers from asthma according to a Department of Health survey in 2006. And pledged his Ministry would support the campaign. To claim a free meter go to the Hamilton Health Clinic.