Tag Archives: Malaria

Join us UNDER COVER and save a child’s life!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: October 29, 2009

Did you know that every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria? Well now you can join the UNDER COVER movement and be part of the solution! UNICEF wants every child at risk of getting malaria to sleep safely UNDER COVER of a life-saving malaria net. At just $11 each, insecticide-treated malaria nets protect children from deadly [...]

Now it’s your turn to tell me what YOU think!

By Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director, UNICEF NZ, Published: July 31, 2009

Malaria was the last area of UNICEF’s work that we looked at on our Solomon Islands visit. Malaria is abig problem in the SI, especially in areas where there is stagnant water and mangrove swamps. The solution is malaria nets. When children and their families sleep under a net they are protected. We spoke with one [...]