Get in the game and join your San Antonio Silver Stars in helping to prevent malaria in Africa. NBA Cares and Nothing But Nets need your help to deliver life-saving bed nets to families in Africa. A ten-dollar donation to Nothing But Nets will provide a bed net to protect children and their families from the disease.
April 25, 2008 marks the first World Malaria Day. Malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, infects more than 500 million people a year and kills more than a million & one child dies every 30 seconds. With your support, the insecticide-laden bed nets will protect children and families from mosquitoes and prevent them from flying on to their next victim.
Send a net. Save a life.
For just $10, Nothing But Nets can buy a bed net, distribute it to a family, and explain its use. In fact, the bed nets can keep a family safe for up to four years. Nothing But Nets has partnered with the Measles Initiative to deliver the nets to even the most hard-to-reach areas of Africa.
Here are other ways you can help
- Start fundraising as an individual or team
- Become a Ruth Riley Netraiser team member
- Bring Nothing But Nets to your community
Nothing But Nets is a grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. While the UN Foundation has been working with the UN to fight malaria for years, it was a column that Rick Reilly wrote about malaria in Sports Illustrated, challenging each of his readers to donate at least $10 for the purchase of an anti-malaria bed nets -- and the incredible response from thousands of Americans across the country -- that led to the creation the Nothing But Nets campaign.