Episcopal Life Online - OPINION
Buy a net through ERD
Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD), working in partnership with Anglican and other ecumenical partners, is distributing long-lasting, insecticide-treated nets to the most vulnerable, building awareness about malaria and training community leaders to teach prevention and treatment methods.
NetsforLife is an ERD-supported partnership to prevent malaria in 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. By the end of 2007, NetsforLife had distributed 664,117 of the nets and reached more than 1.3 million people with malaria-prevention messages.
To learn more about this effort, visit http://www.netsforlifeafrica.org/. To purchase a life-saving net for a family in need, visit ERD's Gifts for Life online store at http://www.er-d.org/. Mosquito nets cost $12, with $6 paying for the net and $6 supporting training and malaria prevention.
-- Rebecca St. James is a Christian recording artist and supporter of Compassion International's campaign against malaria.
