Stories from the Field

Jun 28, 2010 | by Shaun Walsh, Executive Director

Although I have been involved in the relief and development industry for nearly 30 years, the last two days have made clear to me that NetsforLife^® is a unique program in the way it is structured, governed and supported.

I have just attended the Global Business Coalition’s annual conference in Washington, DC, where “more than 200 of the world’s top companies … united with the public sector [to take] front-line action on global health.” The event brought together many of these companies, top government officials, dignitaries and not-for-profits. With presenters and speakers such as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and activist and recording star Annie Lennox, the event drew a great deal of media attention.

Jan 01, 2009 | by Rob Radtke, President, Episcopal Relief & Development

Three years after delivering the first Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Net (LLITN) to a remote community “at the end of the road” in rural Zambia, NetsforLife® has distributed its one millionth net in Africa.

Dec 04, 2007

Dr. Francis, doctor for NetsforLife® and a health educator sailed along the Rufiji Delta (located on the central Tanzanian coast) to Mbwera Island with the last supply of malaria nets for the year.