The request for nets to completely cover my village block was approved and now I can start fundraising for nets. Which means this week my blog is a shameless request for money. We are getting our nets at a steal! Because of a funds-matching agreement, we've been asked to raise $2 per net! That means I am responsible for raising $1,798 to buy the 899 nets that we need.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help raise this money!
You can donate directly at www.AgainstMalaria.com/awebster.
If we raise the $1800 for my area (and I'm trusting you for that), there are other areas also part of this distribution. We're all grouped together and you can make a general donation at www.AgainstMalaria.com/PCVs6500.
Each net helps save lives!!! Typically, there are 2-3 people sharing a bed, meaning one net actually serves more than one person. The mosquitoes that transmit malaria are active mostly at night, while people are sleeping. Impregnated (dipped) mosquito nets are the most effective way to prevent malaria. In addition, because the nets are dipped, or treated, their power to help lower the mosquito population is two-fold: they kill mosquitoes bold enough to approach, and starve the others from the meal they need to survive. If we can get EVERY SINGLE PERSON to sleep under a mosquito net, imagine how that will decrease the prevalence of malaria! The goal is to provide as much coverage as possible in coordination with education about malaria prevention and avoiding/reducing mosquitoes.
Please share the link with your Sunday School classes, youth groups, co-workers, everyone! It's a cheap and easy way to save lives! Plus, Against Malaria requires that we provide video of the distribution, so if you help raise money for this, you're guaranteed to see some video of my dread-head (... bonus, right?) as well as the people who directly benefit from your generosity. So get to raising money! Lives are at stake!
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YES, YES!
Just curious...do you have "deadline" date you are shooting for?
(perhaps silly question, but will i need to bring a net when I come...???)
Grace and Peace Annicka,
Yvette
The campaign to provide bed nets is tantamount to telling families in Africa to stay in bed. Take a few minutes to watch this video by WORLDwrite volunteershttp://www.worldbytes.org/programmes/006/006_002.html
I was unable to load the video linked above, but I can only assume it addresses the fact that bednets only protect you while you're sleeping, meanwhile most families hang out outside long before going to bed. In response, I can say that this distribution is part of a more comprehensive program including house-sprayings, low-cost home-made insect repellents that can be used before bed, and other means of reducing mosquito populations. True, bednets are no cure-all. That being said, malaria transmitting mosquitoes are most active during the time that most people are asleep, so treated (kills mosquitoes that land) bednets make sense and are extremely effective. I hope that placates any fears that we are condescendingly telling Senegal "'Early to bed, early to rise' makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
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