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Amy DiElsi
March 25, 2009

Have you seen Nothing But Nets in the news?

Entertainment shows are buzzing with news about Gavin DeGraw and Tom Cavanagh’s recent trip to Uganda, where the stars helped the UN Foundation distribute life-saving bed nets to refugee families.

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Tom Cavanagh
March 25, 2009

Trust me - nets save lives

A child dies every thirty seconds from Malaria. That’s a gut-punch stat – the showstopper. It has the rare effect, elusive to statistics, to draw you up cold, made altogether worse because it’s true.

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Julie Willig
March 17, 2009

UN malaria report shows prospect for meeting milestone

The United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria, Ray Chambers, recently released a report highlighting the advances that have been made in expanding malaria control interventions.

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Elizabeth McKee Gore
March 14, 2009

Teaching Malaria Prevention through Art

We had the privilege to visit the primary school within the camp, which actually brings together both refugee and national (Ugandan) students.

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Elizabeth McKee Gore
March 13, 2009

Making Friends; Saving Lives

Sitting under a roof made of UNHCR plastic sheeting while squeezing into a mud-brick house just 8ft by 10ft, on my left is Eliza, a 40-year-old refugee from the Congo. She is a polio survivor sitting in a homemade wheelchair with a baby on her lap. To my right is Tom Cavanagh, Hollywood star and producer.

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Elizabeth McKee Gore
March 10, 2009

Nothing But Nets, the Little Campaign That Could

Driving down a dirt road today in Uganda, we were reminiscing that two and a half years ago, several of us at the UN Foundation were sitting around a small table in Elizabeth’s office, brainstorming.

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Andrea Gough
March 05, 2009

An Adventure of a Lifetime

While Houston-area boy scouts celebrated the Boy Scouts of America’s 100th Anniversary with their “An Adventure of a Lifetime” event at Minute Maid Park a couple weeks ago, they also learned that they have the power to be leaders in a life-saving adventure: helping to end malaria deaths.

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Derek Devore
March 05, 2009

Nearly $7,000 raised within an hour?!

Quillian Recreation Ministries, the Sports and Recreation Ministry of First Methodist Houston, recently held a shootout competition at our gym in Houston, TX to raise funds for the Nothing But Nets campaign - to help send bed nets to prevent malaria. 

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Stephanie Garry Tatge
February 27, 2009

To save a life is to save the world

I had no idea what to expect when traveling to Kenya to visit refugee camps in Dadaab. I had been on a safari to Kenya 14 years ago with my husband and son and so loved the air of the land and the romance of the sky and the vistas of animals on our planet.

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Lola Ajayi
February 24, 2009

A bat mitzvah to save lives

A dedicated Nothing But Nets supporter from the Union for Reform Judaism used her traditional Jewish coming of age celebration to raise money for anti-malarial bed nets. Naomi Keren Black, a thirteen year old girl from Australia, asked for donations to Nothing But Nets in lieu of Bat Mitzvah gifts.

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