PR Web

November 29, 2017

Since last June, more than 130,000 refugees—and counting—have entered South Sudan to escape fighting on the border of Sudan. As the situation worsens, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is providing food, water, and shelter. Yet malaria is the leading cause of death among children under five in South Sudan and families need another life-saving tool: insecticide-treated bed nets.

UN Dispatch

Faced with this humanitarian challenge, The Nothing But Nets campaign is mobilizing a new bed net drive to send 100,000 insecticide-treated anti-malaria bed nets to South Sudan.  I just participated in a conference call about the crisis, what Nothing But Nets is doing to meet the challenge — and how some basketball stars and a Broadway philanthropy are helping the cause. Read below. Have a listen. And Send a Net.

Best Delegate

The United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign is launching a contest that could win you and four of your friends the opportunity to NETwork with Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal at the United Nations Headquarters on April 23!

AllAfrica

Against the backdrop of renewed hostilities between South Sudan and its northern neighbour, a fresh initiative aims to provide some relief from an ever-present threat that is killing refugees even as they flee the conflict – malaria.

Borneo Post

The Junior Chamber International (JCI) here has embarked on a global JCI ‘Nothing But Nets’ campaign, aimed to promote awareness of malaria and educating communities on malaria eradication.

Next Web

The Internet can be an overwhelming place with so much information thrown our way all day and night long. When big brands spend millions of dollars on advertising campaigns, the most important thing they care about — their greatest ROI — is your attention and engagement. This is why the quest to gamify the time you spend on Internet is on, with brands, marketers and bored housewives at the helm of the movement.

AllAfrica

Photoessays arrive at Kenya’s Kakuma Camp.

Voice of America

The United Nations is reporting that malaria has dropped from being the leading cause of death among refugees living along the Sudan border. Among the locations where the new malaria-reducing strategies are being employed is the Kakuma Camp for Sudanese refugees in northern Kenya.

Chris Helfrich

The spot where we had stopped in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya wasn’t supposed to be anyone’s home. The open courtyard with shelters was intended for new arrivals to gather and aid workers to distribute water containers, blankets, and other supplies. But nearly 8,000 people have flooded Kakuma since the beginning of the year, the majority of them South Sudanese fleeing violence in their newly independent country.

WNBA

The WNBA today honored Chicago Sky center Ruth Rileys commitment to the community with its WNBA Cares Community Assist Award for June. Since joining the Chicago Sky, Riley has assumed a leadership role off the court in the teams community outreach programs, while continuing to support health-related issues globally through her work with Nothing But Nets and Share Our Strengths No Kid Hungry campaign.