The mosquito nets raised during the Ashton vs. CNN Twitter race are being distributed to save lives now. A simple tweet that galvanized the Twitter community is helping to provide 89,724 life-saving tools in Senegal.
The "Twitter Nets" are rolling out in Saraya to provide 7,000 mosquito nets to villagers in need, and the remaining nets will go to African households in Velingara. The distributions are helping close the malaria protection gap in both villages, granting everyone at risk of malaria in Saraya and Velingara universal access to a net. The campaign will wrap up at the end of March, in time to ramp up for World Malaria Day on April 25, 2010.
Villagers attending the distributions have been learning about Twitter and posing for Twitter frame photos to say "thank you" to the "twitosphere" for providing them with life-saving resources. As photos become available, we have been tweeting them out and posting them on our site.
See the "Twitter Net" photos here! http://www.malarianomore.org/index.php/ ... id=5895846
Please post the photos to your Facebook profile and tweet them out from your Twitter
account!
A huge "thanks" goes out to the tweets that made this happen from Ashton (@aplusk), CNN (@cnnbrk), Oprah (@Oprah), Ryan Seacrest, Sean Combs and thousands of others who tweeted in support of the cause and donated nets. A special "thank you" goes to our partners on the ground in Senegal, the Peace Corps, Tostan and World Vision!
