Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Off the backboard, through the Internet, across to the UN, over the Atlantic, into Africa, NOTHING BUT NET
by ToastyKen

A Sports Illustrated column titled, Nothing But Nets, is asking people to go donate to the UN Foundation to help buy mosquito nets for Africans to fight malaria. I can't vouch for the UN Foundation's effectiveness or anything, but I love the tie-in aspect of calling it "Nothing but Nets", and I love that it's a in a Sports Illustrated column, of all places. At the very least, the column's novelty factor has helped it to spread the word (This blog post is a case in point!) about just how big a problem it is. (A couple million deaths a year!)