Grassroots supporters accession over $1.2 actor to bear 128,000 bed nets to four refugee camps in Kenya
Dadaab, Kenya and Washington DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 10, 2009 -- The United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, a global, grassroots action to anticipate malaria, appear today its supporters accept auspiciously aloft added than $1.2 actor to accommodate abiding insecticide-treated nets to added than 273,000 refugees in four camps in Kenya afore the summer's backing season. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) will deliver the 128,000 nets over the next few weeks.
A adolescent in Kenya receives a bed net
As I advice deliver nets actuality in Dadaab camp, I am beholden to the bags of individuals who accept donated as little as $10 to forward these life-saving bed nets The refugees I've met with accept survived displacement, bigotry and sometimes war - they should not again die of a malaria infection acquired by a mosquito bite. We are beholden to accompany UNHCR and the UN Foundation on this cruise to see contiguous the appulse of malaria on these refugee camps It is difficult for the families active in these camps, and with just a $10 donation, we are able to advice assure adjoin malaria and action these parents some area of apperception as they beddy-bye at night with their children. "As I advice deliver nets actuality in Dadaab camp, I am beholden to the bags of individuals who accept donated as little as $10 to forward these life-saving bed nets," said Adrianna Logalbo, Director of Nothing But Nets. "The refugees I've met with accept survived displacement, bigotry and sometimes war - they should not again die of a malaria infection acquired by a mosquito bite."
Adrianna Logalbo is abutting in Kenya by three assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism, a accomplice of the grassroots campaign. "We are beholden to accompany UNHCR and the UN Foundation on this cruise to see contiguous the appulse of malaria on these refugee camps," said Rabbi Marla Feldman. "It is difficult for the families active in these camps, and with just a $10 donation, we are able to advice assure adjoin malaria and action these parents some area of apperception as they beddy-bye at night with their children."
In September 2008, UNHCR articular an actual and burning charge for 275,000 long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets for refugees active in 27 refugee camps in Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania, area the malaria accountability is accomplished a allotment of African camps.
More than 630,000 refugees accept been displaced as a aftereffect of the overextension crisis in Darfur and added bounded crises. As the next backing division approaches, those active in refugee camps-the majority of whom are women and children-are now threatened by malaria, the amount one analgesic of refugees in Africa.
The UN Foundation, through Nothing But Nets, has issued an emergency fundraising address to accession the funds all-important to accommodate these life-saving nets. Until World Malaria Day on April 25, 2009, all donations to Nothing But Nets will go to this effort. A life-saving bed net costs $10 to purchase, deliver and brainwash families on its use. One bed net can assure a ancestors of four. To accord and to apprentice more, appointment www.NothingButNets.net/nets-save-lives/refugees.
About Nothing But Nets
Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots attack to save lives by preventing malaria, a arch analgesic of accouchement in Africa. Inspired by above Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly, tens of bags of humans accept abutting the attack that was created by the United Nations Foundation in 2006. Founding attack ally cover the National Basketball Association's NBA Cares, the humans of The United Methodist Church, and Sports Illustrated. It alone costs $10 to accommodate an insecticide-treated bed net that can anticipate this baleful disease. Visit www.NothingButNets.net to forward a net and save a life.
Press Contacts:
Amy DiElsi, United Nations Foundation
(o) 202.419.3230
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