This is from a young friend of mine who tries to reach out and help overseas as she can. I promised I would pass along this email to you and I'm sending early b/c there is a deadline. Forward if you can and if you feel led to help please do.
I am going to see what my girl's Bible study and I can do. Blessings!
There's this missionary in Africa I follow on Youtube, Gret Glyer, and for the past half year, he's been doing weekly fundraisers to help individuals in a Malawi village. He shows the person's (or family's) problem in a video, and in the next video after the money's raised, he shows how the money has helped. It's been really awesome to witness and get to be a part of over the past couple of months. (Here's a link to the playlist of videos if you'd like to see: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JRcmXVcYaaksNTZRQ3pnP7fwVVNWWF_)
Gret's latest project is to get mosquito nets for an entire village. It might not sound important, but malaria, a parasitic disease rampant in Malawi, is spread by mosquito bites. Most adults survive, but children can easily die from it. The crazy thing is it's almost entirely preventable. The mosquitos bite mostly at night, so the nets protect the people while they're asleep.
Gret has only 3 more days to complete fundraising for the entire village but he's so close to making the goal. You wouldn't have to donate a lot; it's just $9.50 for a single net. I understand if you can't, but if you could pass a long this email or the linked Youtube video, which explains the project and it's significance, to someone who you think would interested, that would be amazing.
One more thing: even if the entire goal isn't met, the money fundraised will be used to buy as many nets as possible and handed out to children first. Even if just 75% of a village gets nets, the frequency of malaria cases drops dramatically, so every little bit helps.
Thanks so much for reading through this, and I hope you can help in some way.
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