Project Mosquito Net

"If you put plain old bed nets around and do it properly and spray them with insecticide, you can get rid of half the malaria deaths in Africa, and that’s at least a million a year." -- Michael Specter, New Yorker Magazine

Project Mosquito Net is a grass roots non-profit project dedicated to providing insecticide treated bed nets to children and pregnant mothers in Kenya to prevent malaria infections and deaths. The project began in 2005 as a joint effort between non-profits and the Akado Medical Center. Our current efforts involve the following organizations: the Kenyan based Akado Medical Center, the San Diego based non-profit Power of Love, the London based non-profit Swim Against Malaria and the Against Malaria initiative. Unlike larger non-profits, since we are completely volunteer run and do not take salaries, with our project you know exactly where your donation is going and can be assured that 100% of every dollar donated has benefited a child by providing him or her with a long lasting insecticide treated bed net.

This is our third year of net distributions and we are proud to announce that in June 2007, six thousand of the poorest and most marginalized households in the Mbita region will be receiving long lasting nets to protect them from malaria infection. All donations to this project are completely tax deductible and 100% of the funds donated for this project go directly to purchasing and transporting insecticide treated bed nets (ITNS).

Each net costs only $10 a piece, this includes both the net price and the cost of transporting and distributing each net. The sad and staggering fact is that in Africa, every year, over 700,000 children die needlessly from this completely preventable disease. More children die from malaria then any other disease in the world. So how can you help? Donate, hold a fundraiser, raise awareness. Together we can eradicate malaria, one child and one mosquito bed net at a time.