Global Problem

A Global Problem

• Malaria claims twice the number of African children as AIDS each year.
• Globally, 500 million people are infected with malaria every year.
• Over 1 million people die from malaria annually.
• 90% of all cases are found in Africa
• Every 30 seconds a child dies of Malaria.
• One case of malaria can cause up to 100 other infections.
• Pregnant women and children under the age of 5 are most susceptible to malaria.

" The biggest problem is that westerners only think of HIV. HIV is a horrible disease of course. But, it is malaria that keeps Africa down. And the saddest part is that it is an entirely preventable disease."
- Dr. Lamine Diawara (A Sengalese physician)

A Kingdom Solution

HIS Nets is a non-profit organization which provides a Christian response to the global malaria epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. While raising awareness of this on-going global crisis, HIS Nets is also mobilizing Christians and other caring groups to save lives and improve the quality of life of those in high malarial areas of sub-Saharan Africa.

HIS Nets purchases insecticide treated sleeping nets which are then given to African families. These special nets provide protection to an entire family at a modest cost. The nets are distributed by churches and other agencies free of charge as a tangible Christian witness.

• One net costs less than $6.00, so for less than the price of a dinner or movie, one life could be saved and an entire family can sleep in peace.
• These special nets continue to protect families from mosquitoes, and thus malaria, for up to four years.
• These nets have been proven to cut the incidents of malaria infection by half and child deaths from malaria by one-fifth.

HIS Nets is a perfect project for Sunday school classes, children's clubs, or even for individuals who are looking for a cost effective yet highly productive way to make a direct contribution to people in serious need.
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Putting a Face on Malaria

Through the years His Nets has touched more than half a million lives. Numbers however cannot tell the entire story. Just a week ago I was in Ghana with a team to distribute nets east of Lake Volta, near the Togo border. 2,000 nets were given out in small towns & villages and in a school & a hospital. It was at that hospital on our last day of distribution that the work of His Nets gained a new face and a name.

Rev. Timothy Wilson of the Ghana Baptist Convention had arranged the distributions and accompanied us to each site. As the week ended, he took our 8 person team to visit the pediatric ward of the local hospital. The head nurse told us that over 80% of the small patients were there because of malaria.

To our surprise we recognized one little boy in the ward! His was Onesimus Wilson, the youngest son of our local coordinator! He had gone to the hospital with a high fever due to a malaria attack! His family had only just received an insecticide treated mosquito net from His Nets, but not before Onesimus contracted malaria.

Happily we were able to purchase the medicine that “Oni” needed and he was feeling much better before we left. Statistics such as 10,000 people a day dying of malaria or one child every 30 seconds are just that: statistics. When it is someone you know, like Onesimus Wilson, then the fight against malaria becomes real. It becomes personal!

Thank you for supporting His Nets and helping to save the lives of tens of thousands like Onesimus Wilson!

-T Thomas Read Norman Transcript article

First Baptist Church-Marietta, Georgia