Nothing But Nets
Issue Area: Children’s Health
LATEST NETS NEWS: Supporters send nets to one million refugees. Watch a video of a message of thanks.
A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds, but since 2001, through the Measles Initiative, we have helped to distribute millions of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to children in Africa as a form of prevention.
The United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign was created in 2006, and since then, a diverse set of Nothing But Nets partners and tens of thousands of supporters, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization, NBA Cares, MLS W.O.R.K.S. and the people of The United Methodist Church, have raised more than $30 million to send bed nets and save children’s lives.
In the fall of 2008, Nothing But Nets teamed up with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to send long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets to refugees living in camps in Africa. At the end of 2009, the campaign had successfully raised enough money to send one million nets to protect this vulnerable population.
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STORIES OF IMPACT
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Sending anti-malaria nets to refugees in Ethiopia
Area of Involvement: Children’s Health
(Part six of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) Standing in Mai-Aini refugee camp in Ethiopia, I was reminded why it is imperative that the UN Foundation fills a vital gap in malaria funding by providing anti-malaria bed nets, the most cost effective method of malaria prevention, to refugees in Africa. Mai-Aini, a camp on the Ethiopia – Eritrea border, hosts 10,000 refugees with 1,200 new people arriving per day from the turbulent country of Eritrea.
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Selam: The bravest girl in Ethiopia, fighting malaria
Area of Involvement: Children’s Health
(Part five of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) Selam, an Eritrean girl I met today, might be the most beautiful child I have ever seen. At only seven years old, Selam walked by herself across the border from Eritrea into Ethiopia. She was trying to locate family members who might be in the refugee camps. Imagine being seven and making a journey like that. Her bravery astounded me!
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Delivering Hope to Refugees in Uganda
Area of Involvement: Children’s Health
Malaria is the number one killer of refugees in Africa. For people who have lost so much, a bed net can mean life or death. I traveled to Uganda with the UN High Commission on Refugees to help deliver some of the 600,000 bed nets we have pledged to cover the most vulnerable of the camps.
