Hi, my name is Andreas Panteli and I am a high school student on Staten Island, New York.
In 2005, I started a campaign to raise awareness in my school and in Staten Island about Unicef and its efforts
to help children around the world, as well as to support to the Millennium Development Goals.
 Then, in April 2006, I read an article ("Net Gains") in the New York Times by Jeffrey D. Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is the author of "The End of Poverty." It was an article about the malaria disease and how insecticide-treated bednets can save millions of children in Africa who may otherwise die from malaria. This prompted me to organize together with my classmates and to make it our single-purpose focus to raise funds within our community on Staten Island to help save the lives of the poor children in Africa.
All funds and donations are directly given to the United Nations Foundation. When you click on our website to donate or to purchase bednets, you are directed to the United Nations Foundation website and your donation is made directly to the foundation. Any checks which we collect from donors are payable to the United Nations Foundation.
"90% of malaria deaths occur in Africa and most of those killed are under the age of 5" |
Read the article “Net Gains” By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Published: April 29, 2006 at:- 
“……We should respond by showing our abiding concern for the plight of Africans by helping to save millions
of children who are at risk of death from disease……
 ……Here, then, is a weapon of mass salvation. The bed nets themselves cost about $6. The cost of bed net
distribution per household is less than 50 cents. Including the cost of transportation from manufacturers to the
villages and of follow up by trained volunteers, the total price of getting each net to the hut is under $10. Since
the net lasts five years and typically two children sleep under it, the protection is about $1 per child per year.
Roughly every hundred nets in use will save the life of one child a year and prevent many dozens of debilitating
occurrences of malaria……
……these campaigns would protect 40 million children against malaria and save perhaps 200,000 lives each year.
……With a child expected to die every 15 seconds, this crisis cannot wait for, and rely only upon, government financing……”
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