Orkin will donate $10,000 to its Fight The Bite campaign if the app reaches 50,000 downloads by Feb. 28. Fight The Bite is Orkin's partnership with the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, a global, grassroots effort dedicated to saving lives by preventing malaria in Africa. Malaria kills a child every 45 seconds, and Fight The Bite donations help Nothing But Nets purchase and distribute long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets to malaria-prone areas in Africa.
Read ArticleIn 2009, actor and singer Mandy Moore saw the life-and-death role a mosquito net could play in the war on malaria in southern Sudan.
Read ArticleGood news today on malaria efforts in the Central African Republic.
The Nothing But Nets campaign and United Nations partner Population Services International report that at end of 2010, hundreds of thousands of nets were delivered to families in the Central African Republic.
Read ArticleIn just a couple of days I’ll start popping Malarone pills–a prophylactic anti-malaria medicine–for my trip to South Africa. Fortunately, I can afford the preventative medicine.
Read ArticleWhat's Mandy Moore giving for the holidays? Mosquito nets. The singer-songwriter-actress, the voice of Rapunzel in the new animated film Tangled, is working with international non-profit health group Population Services International and the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign to provide Africans at high risk for malaria with mosquito nets.
Read ArticleMandy Moore is calling on Christmas donations for anti-malaria nets in the Central African Republic.
Read ArticleEarlier this summer, singer, songwriter, and actress Mandy Moore teamed up with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign to help stop the outbreak of Malaria in the Central African Republic — a country where a child dies every 30 seconds from the disease.
Read ArticleChanukah is already here and Christmas and Kwanza are just around the corner... so what are you getting your loved ones? Here are some suggestions that will support women and girls around the globe and save you a trip to the mall!
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Mandy Moore blogged about her visit to the Central African Republic to help distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign and the global health organization PSI.
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