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Chris Helfrich

June 8, 2017

Each time bed nets are distributed to communities in Africa to protect children and families from malaria, new stories are made. Each of those stories is a reminder of tens of thousands of supporters have been part of Nothing But Nets for seven years.

Klaenyza Pritchard

Stephen Curry talks about Day 1 at the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania where he just distributed life-saving bed nets with sports columnist Rick Reilly and Nothing But Nets. Listen to what he had to say about this eye opening experience.

Klaenyza Pritchard

Check out what Director of the Nothing But Nets campaign Chris Helfrich had to say about how you have helped make it possible for us to deliver life-saving bed nets to EVERY familiy living in the camp.

Klaenyza Pritchard

We did it! With help from sports columnist Rick Reilly, NBA star Stephen Curry, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and amazing supporters like you, we were able to distribute more than 38,000 bed nets to the residents of the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp. Listen as Rick Reilly sums up his experiences in this inspiring video diary.

Chris Helfrich

Kids have been dying here every week from this preventable disease.  However, the numbers can’t give you the full picture of what malaria is doing to the people of Nyarugusu. The stories behind the statistics, of the people suffering from malaria, help illustrate the need for us to do everything in our power to rid Nyarugusu of malaria.

Caleb Tiller

When I think of the United Nations, the first images in my mind are often the iconic UN headquarters building in New York, or news photos of heads of state speaking in the General Assembly Hall, or delegates listening intently to translations of speakers from other nations.

Chris Helfrich

Tonight, more than 68,000 people in Western Tanzania are sleeping safely under bed nets for the first time in many years, protected from malaria. The story of how we distributed 38,000 nets to the people of Nyarugusu refugee camp, a place that had over 62,000 documented cases of malaria last year, begins with you.

Edem Torkornoo

It’s World Mosquito Day! On this day in 1897, British scientist Sir Ronald Ross made the breakthrough discovery that malaria is transmitted between humans by the female anopheles mosquito.

Rachel Henderson

Embarking on their last year at Springhill Elementary in Lafayette, CA, seven classmates from Troop 33005 met to discuss their Girl Scout Bronze Award. With the community in mind, the girls individually presented their ideas for this project to the troop.

Elizabeth Ivanovich

Bed nets save lives and can help eliminate malaria. I had the opportunity to see this first hand at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria board meeting in Sri Lanka in June.