| 2010: A new year of challenges for His Nets |
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| Wednesday, 09 December 2009 21:35 |
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When His Nets began its work six years ago, it was one of the few mosquito net organizations in the world giving out insecticide treated nets for free. Luckily today there are more than a dozen groups doing what His Nets does, though few (if any) are able to work so efficiently. From primary school classes to civic groups and church groups to big hearted inviduals, His Nets partners with all types of people and organizations. We help to raise money, secure nets at a reduced price and then get them distributed in some of the most remote places in the world. We do not have a "one size fits all" approach, but rather a "let's see how we can work together" philosophy. This is why in 2010, we already have over a dozen projects underway. These include everything from providing nets to a Catholic orphanage and school in Malawi to working with an NGO in Uganda to improve the quality of life for every family in a remote village. Check out our project list for 2010 and see where you can partner with us to help save two lives with each $6.00 net distributed. Join the His Nets team and become a Life Saver in 2010! |
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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 |
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