Spread the Net non profit organization in collaboration with UNICEF, that raises money to give bednets to people in regions of Africa afflicted with malaria. Spread the Net was co-founded and is co-chaired with Rick Mercer from the Mercer Report, and Belinda Stronach, a member of the Canadian Parliament from 2004 to 2008.
The goal of Spread the Net is to purchase and distribue 500,000 insecticide treated bed nets worth about $10 each, for familie...
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Spread the Net non profit organization in collaboration with UNICEF, that raises money to give bednets to people in regions of Africa afflicted with malaria. Spread the Net was co-founded and is co-chaired with Rick Mercer from the Mercer Report, and Belinda Stronach, a member of the Canadian Parliament from 2004 to 2008.
The goal of Spread the Net is to purchase and distribue 500,000 insecticide treated bed nets worth about $10 each, for families of Liberia and Rwanda. The campaign has donated 310,000 nets as of March 2009.
In 2005, Rick Mercer and Belinda Stronach travelled to Africa along with Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the UN Millennium Project, in preparation to co-host the Millennium Promise Convention in Montreal on November 9, 2006. At the convention, Mercer and Stronach, along with Jeffrey Sachs and Nigel Fisher, President and CEO of UNICEF Canada, announced their intention to begin the Spread the Net campaign, and raise $5 million for insecticide treated bed...
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