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November 30, 2017

It may be a cliche, but “nothing but net” has never taken on such importance as it does now. That’s because the first annual Cavanagh Classic Basketball Game – in collaboration with the “Nothing But Nets” campaign – will tip off tomorrow afternoon at Rucker Park to help raise funds to ship life-saving bed nets, which prevent malaria, to Africa.

The Times-Standard

Barbecued goat with couscous, fried plantains, fish stew and a host of other culinary delicacies were served during a special African dinner held Aug. 23 at the First United Methodist Church in Eureka. About 100 people attended the festive event. The evening was a fundraiser for Nothing But Nets, the United Methodist Church’s partnership with the NBA to get nets to malaria-stricken regions in Africa.

TIME

The World Health Organization (WHO) has cut its global estimate of yearly malaria cases by more than 100 million, according to a report released Thursday by the health agency. Almost all of that downward revision was attributable to updated surveillance numbers — mostly in Asia, and particularly in India — rather than a measurable reduction of actual malaria cases, agency staff said.

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Last year a campaign started on the DePauw University campus that saved the lives of hundreds of children by providing nets to protect them from being bitten by malaria carrying mosquitoes.

The Washington Post

With a dramatic series of announcements Thursday, world leaders declared what experts just two years ago considered virtually impossible: They believe the number of deaths caused by malaria can fall from more than 1 million annually to zero by 2015.

Huffington Post

Today, at the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative, the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign will announce a major commitment to send over 600,000 long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets to vulnerable refugee populations living in 27 temporary camps in East Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

CNN

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Beaumont Enterprise

Life is priceless. But in Africa a long one may cost no more than $10. And after realizing what such little money can do, a group of Southeast Texans recently traveled overseas to bring health to more than a half-million children. Four people from Southeast Texas joined a national relief campaign sponsored by the United Methodist Church and spent 10 days in Africa earlier this month in an effort to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets and vaccines to poverty-stricken villages.

The New York Times

Nicholas Kristof, an Op-Ed columnist and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, brings attention to human rights abuses and social injustices around the world.

MassLive.com

The success of their fund-raising efforts in support of children in Africa has exceeded even their expectations.