During Sports Night in the Mission Room at VBS, our children found out that nets aren't just for sports! They learned about the threat of malaria that faces many children worldwide. Our VBS children also learned about the organization Nothing But Nets and their goal to supply families with mosquito nets and thus curb the threat of malaria.
That week, the VBS kids raised $328.86 for the Nothing but Nets campaign. For more information on Nothing But Nets or to purchase and send a life-saving net, visit www.nothingbutnets.org.
The Need
As you read this, a mother and her children are being given a mosquito net. An aid worker is showing them how to hang the net over their bed.
Tonight, she and her children will sleep safely under this net. Later-perhaps tonight, maybe in a week-a malarial mosquito will enter their hut, intent on feeding. It will buzz around the room as they sleep, and they'll be unaware of the killer lurking nearby. As it approaches the family, it will seek rest on the net hanging conveniently close to their bed. But this will be the last act it makes before it's crippled, forever incapacitated by the insecticide embedded in this protective bed cover.
By giving, just a little, to Nothing But Nets, you've just protected someone from malaria. You've sent a net and saved a life. For that we want to say thank you.
