Thanks to the incredible support of our friends at MLS W.O.R.K.S., we were able to attend the fabulous events leading up to the astounding 2009 MLS Cup game held in Seattle.
Read ArticleElizabeth McKee Gore, the UN Foundation’s executive director of global partnerships, just wrapped up an extensive trip to Ethiopia, which brought her from rural villages to urban centers to everywhere in between.
Read ArticleIt’s the diagnosis no one wants to hear: terminal brain tumor. If my doctor handed me this diagnosis, I’d panic and immediately start making a list of about a thousand things I still wanted to accomplish in the time I had left – and ending poverty in Africa probably wouldn’t make the list. Then again, I’m not Laurence Carolin.
Read ArticleThe holiday shopping season has just begun, and to spread the holiday (and malaria) buzz this year, we’re offering you 50% off your order at the Nothing But Nets Store from today through Monday.
Read ArticleAs I prepare for Thanksgiving this week, images of Joyce, her newborn daughter Priscilla, and of the hundreds of other refugees we met in Uganda fill my head and move me to think about the meaning of gratitude.
Read ArticleOn November 3, Anthony and I, with Katherine and Joseph in tow, returned to our stomping grounds of St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA.
Read ArticleBig news! Nothing But Nets is uniting with our global malaria partners to build buzz about malaria prevention in the lead-up to World Cup 2010 in South Africa -- the first time the World Cup will play out on the continent of Africa.
Read ArticleThe end of the year is upon us already -- how did that happen so quickly? There are 7 weeks left until 2010. But aside from ringing in the New Year with a party hat, noisemakers, and Ryan Seacrest, we have an even bigger task ahead of us: 160,000 nets are needed for refugees by Dec. 31.
Read ArticleWhile sitting in the Paicho Camp health clinic among a handful of pregnant women who were waiting to visit with the head nurse, I watched a young woman walk in nestling a baby in a pink blanket. The woman, Joyce, was 17 years old. Priscilla, her six-week-old baby, was born two months premature weighing just four pounds.
Read ArticleI am in Africa! Wow. This is amazing and terrifying.
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