Singer and 'Trust Me' abecedarian accomplice with Nothing But Nets to bear bed nets to refugee affected in Uganda
Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 11, 2009 -- The United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, a global, grassroots action to anticipate malaria, is teaming up with Platinum recording artisan Gavin DeGraw and television brilliant Tom Cavanagh for an accessible amicableness mission to accommodate abiding insecticide-treated bed nets to the Nakivale refugee affected in Uganda, area added than 40,000 refugees are currently settled. DeGraw and Cavanagh will appointment the affected and deliver nets alternating with the assembly from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) from March 8-13.
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I am absolutely analytic advanced to this trip After accepting apprenticed from their homes due to agitated conflict, millions of refugees in Africa now face addition agonizing threat, malaria. These bed nets can advice stop the adversity faced by so many. Malaria is the amount one analgesic of refugees in Africa I am appreciative that Gavin and I are able to accompany absorption to a simple antidote - a $10 bed net - to this adverse problem. Refugees in these camps accept survived accident their homes, abandon and genocide - they should not again die of a mosquito bite We are aflame about the commitments by our Champions - Gavin and Tom - to accompany absorption to the actual absolute blackmail of malaria in refugee camps. We apperceive Gavin and Tom's supporters will accommodate funds to accommodate life-saving bed nets. In Love With A Girl Law & Order: Criminal Intent "I am absolutely analytic advanced to this trip," said DeGraw. "After accepting apprenticed from their homes due to agitated conflict, millions of refugees in Africa now face addition agonizing threat, malaria. These bed nets can advice stop the adversity faced by so many."
Over 630,000 African refugees accept been displaced due to 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 accouchement - are now threatened by malaria.
"Malaria is the amount one analgesic of refugees in Africa," said Cavanagh. "I am appreciative that Gavin and I are able to accompany absorption to a simple antidote - a $10 bed net - to this adverse problem."
UNHCR has accustomed 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.
"Refugees in these camps accept survived accident their homes, abandon and genocide - they should not again die of a mosquito bite," said Nothing But Nets Executive Director Elizabeth Gore. "We are aflame about the commitments by our Champions - Gavin and Tom - to accompany absorption to the actual absolute blackmail of malaria in refugee camps. We apperceive Gavin and Tom's supporters will accommodate funds to accommodate life-saving bed nets."
The UN Foundation, through Nothing But Nets, has organized a accommodating acknowledgment to the situation, and is agreeable anybody from the UN to the NBA and the Union for Reform Judaism to humans in towns above America to accession the funds all-important to accommodate these life-saving bed nets. 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 forward a net and save a life, appointment www.NothingButNets.net.
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.
Visit www.NothingButNets.net for added information, stories, and photos from the trip. High above video footage and photographs are accessible aloft request.
Press Contacts:
Amy DiElsi, United Nations Foundation
(o) 202.419.3230, (e) adielsi(at)unfoundation.org
About Gavin DeGraw's new album
On March 31st, 2009, J Records' platinum recording artisan Gavin DeGraw will absolution a new accumulating of songs, advantaged FREE - a raw, organic-sounding recording that showcases DeGraw's bawdy agreeableness and ever-evolving songwriting talent. In befitting with the stripped-down feel of FREE, DeGraw will hit the alley on March 27th for an all-encompassing bounce bout he has dubbed his "Where It Began" tour, in which audiences will be taken on a agreeable adventure aback to DeGraw's roots for a alternation of affectionate abounding casting and abandoned performances.
FREE is the aftereffect to DeGraw's self-titled 2008 album GAVIN DEGRAW, which debuted at No. 1 on the agenda sales blueprint and No. 7 on Billboard's Top 200 album blueprint endure May, earning DeGraw his aboriginal Top 10 album. GAVIN DEGRAW spawned the hit singles "In Love With A Girl," which Billboard dubbed "a agitation homerun" and the gold-certified "We Belong Together."
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