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Mosquito Squad Joins Malaria No More to Draw Attention to Malaria Epidemic Through World Malaria Day on April 25, 2012
Posted by janegwalker in Buy at $10 net to save a life, end Malaria deaths, end Malaria in Africa, Malaria, Malaria No More, Uncategorized on April 24, 2012
Dread Skeeter from Mosquito Squad helping Malaria No More
Tomorrow is the fifth annual World Malaria Day and this year’s theme is simple: “Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria.” To help do our part, Mosquito Squad continues to support Malaria No More in its goal of reaching near zero deaths in Africa by 2015. In fact, we recently committed more than $50,000 to help fight this treatable and preventable disease. If you want to help us in our fight against malaria, donate at SwatMalaria.net on World Malaria Day!
Established by the World Health Assembly, World Malaria Day was started in 2007 to provide “education and understanding of malaria.” Its first theme was “Malaria – a disease without borders.” Although malaria is heavily concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, it, at times, reached epidemic levels in many parts of the world, including Europe and North America.
In honor of World Malaria Day, here are some facts about the disease that you may not know:
- The world malaria comes from the Italian words for “bad air” because the disease was first thought to be a result of bad swamp air.
- It is the world’s deadliest disease, killing over 650,000 people a year, most of which are children
- Some Egyptian mummies show signs of malaria
- Aristotle, Homer and Hippocrates all described the symptoms of malaria in their works
- Shakespeare alludes to malaria in eight of his plays
- In Europe, it spread as far north as Russia
- The Incas were the first to find relief from malaria using bark from the cinchona tree
- George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant all suffered from the disease
- British physician Ronald Ross was the first to discover that malaria was carried by the mosquito in 1897
- The US Center for Disease control was initially set up with the mission to control the spread of malaria
- Malaria was eradicated in the US in the 1950s
- Malaria mosquitoes need to drink blood every three days
- Symptoms of the disease usually appear 10-15 days after a person is infected
World Malaria Day is a day to spread awareness of the disease as well as a day to take action. A donation of just $10 to Malaria No More can help protect a mother and three small children against this terrible illness. To give now, visit SwatMalaria.net.
Helping Minimize Malaria Deaths in Africa – You can help
Posted by janegwalker in Buy at $10 net to save a life, end Malaria deaths, end Malaria in Africa, Malaria, Malaria No More, Uncategorized on March 29, 2012
Dread Skeeter from Mosquito Squad helping Malaria No More
A few years ago, Mosquito Squad joined Malaria No More in its goal toward near zero malaria deaths in in Africa by 2015 and we are happy to continue our support.
Malaria is rampant in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, killing a child nearly every minute, yet it is both preventable and treatable. Malaria No More helps fight the growth of malaria by helping to provide protective bed nets at $10 apiece.
At Mosquito Squad, we have committed more than $50,000 to the effort and encourage our nearly 100 franchisees to provide information and ways to donate to their customers. “We are so fortunate that parents in our country don’t worry about the possibility of their children contracting malaria,” says Scott Zide, president of Outdoor Living Brands, Mosquito Squad’s parent company. “We can’t think of a better organization that fits with our values and our corporate goals of making our world a better, safer place to live, not only in backyards across America but in the villages of Africa as well.”
Take a look at the video below and donate to Malaria No More at SwatMalaria.net.
Malaria part of the Millenium Development Goals for the U.N.
Posted by 33social in Buy at $10 net to save a life, end Malaria deaths, end Malaria in Africa, Malaria No More on November 29, 2010
It continues to amaze me how often the saying “starving children in Africa” comes up in my household. Not only did my parents talk about it but I have obviously said this many times to my children. And never is this used more than in a period of gluttony such as Thanksgiving. I know gluttony is a strong word but in all reality, it is a day that we Americans have a name for the effect of overstuffing ourselves with food. And further, this season of over-indulging will last for at least another month.
“Why don’t you give that to the starving children in Africa”
The children in Africa are dying of much more than hunger. They’re dropping in droves from Malaria. Malaria kills one child every 45 seconds in Africa. But, in order to fight any problem of this scope, there needs to be massive, concerted efforts to end the dying. The U.N has established Millenium Development Goals for the international organization. One of these 8 goals is to to combat Malaria and other raging diseases including HIV/AIDS.
So we have the infrastructure, now what?
Mosquito Squad has teamed up with Malaria No More to help save lives in Africa. Although this is a huge problem, this is a disease we can eradicate. The United States was able to successfully eradicate the disease in 1951. It can be done.
Nothing but nets – and you can make a slam dunk.
One of the best ways to treat Malaria is to prevent Malaria in Africa. Disease-carrying mosquitoes bit mostly from dusk until dawn while children and adults sleep. For just $10, you can buy a mosquito net to cover a bed and keep mosquitoes from biting and spreading the disease.
To donate, text SWAT to 85944 or visit our website and make a larger donation.
Sometimes giving is better than receiving
Posted by 33social in Buy at $10 net to save a life, end Malaria deaths, end Malaria in Africa, Malaria No More on November 26, 2010
I grew up Catholic and whether you’re Catholic or not, you’ve probably heard of Lent. Lent is the time of year where Catholics give up something important to them in preparation for commemorating a very important religious event. We’ve probably heard at least one friend say “I’m giving up chocolate for lent” or “I’m giving up sweets for lent”. Somewhere in my childhood I was instructed to give something instead of giving something up. Whether this was giving something huge or giving something small or giving something small on a daily basis, the idea was to recognize our good fortune and be willing to give it away to those less fortunate.
Many of us as we get into holiday season think of giving to a local food bank, or sponsoring a local family, or otherwise sharing our good fortune not only with our families but with those less fortunate. Sometimes it’s easy to identify a way to do this by working with a local agency or perhaps a local group we’re affiliated with has already set this up. But often, the task of figuring out how to donate that money gets in the way of us giving because we don’t know where to look or how to identify that opportunity.
I have a great idea. Did you know that every a child dies every 45 seconds of Malaria and the disease accounts for 20% of all childhood deaths in Africa? That’s 1,920 children each day!! So as of today, there are 28 days until Christmas. That means 53,760 children in Africa will not live until Christmas. I know it sounds like a small thing, but you could make that 53,759 or 53,758. You could help 1 or 2 children live to see Christmas this very year.
All you have to do is text SWAT to 85944 which will initiate a $10 donation to be billed to the caller through your cell phone service provider. Or, to save more children, go to http://30000in30days.com/. For every $10 donation, a mosquito net will be purchased in your name. Before the weekend is over, take time to give $10 or $30 or $50 or $100 to save these children and help them see Christmas this year. It’s almost tax time and you can write off your contribution. Donate now. That’s the real spirit of the season.
Half of the world’s population are at risk of Malaria
Posted by Robin Steele in Buy at $10 net to save a life, end Malaria deaths, end Malaria in Africa, Malaria No More on November 15, 2010
Dread Skeeter from Mosquito Squad helping Malaria No More
Here are 3 staggering statistics:
- According to the World Health Organization, about 3.3 billion people — half of the world’s population — are at risk of malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes.
- Malaria kills one child in Africa every 45 seconds.
- Malaria was eradicated in the United States in 1951.
How can this be? How is it that one country was able to eradicate the disease over a half a century ago but Malaria is gobbling up children at more than one per minute in Africa? This doesn’t even seem possible. From where we sit in our comfortable chairs making our Thanksgiving shopping lists and looking for where we can save so many cents/pound on turkey for Thanksgiving, grand goals like world peace and saving dying children in Africa don’t seem like the thing we can solve. Or at least, we can’t solve them very easily. Many people have dedicated their lives to these causes. Those people live, eat and breathe these causes and yet they still remain problems that seem like they will never be solved.
Help raise $30,000 in 30 days to help 3,000 children make it to Thanksgiving
But, from where we sit in our comfortable chairs clipping coupons, we can dial just a few numbers into our cell phone and donate just $10 to save a child in Africa this Thanksgiving. All you have to do is text SWAT to 85944. You don’t even need to get up from your chair. Just text SWAT to 85944. You’ll receive a confirmation message requesting your confirmation before finalizing your donation.
This is a huge problem where we can donate a little money and make a big difference – saving a child.
Would you spend $10 to save a child?
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