$6 Life-Saving Anti-Malaria Bednets

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Summary

Provides bednets for African families to prevent malaria and lift them out of poverty. These nets will keep a family malaria-free 20 times longer than other nets, preventing expensive malaria care. progress reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $8,593 was raised for this project.

Received $8,593 from 38 donations from people like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Malaria costs Africa more than $12 billion annually, with more than 300 million new cases and 1 million deaths per year. Malaria particularly affects the poor, who typically spend 30% to 40% of their income on health expenses. Prevention is vital. Providing a $6 malaria-preventing bednet to a poor family will save their lives and help lift them out of poverty. This project will protect almost 300,000 Africans against malaria and save lives.

Activities

The project will help provide expensive bednets to the poor. Acumen Fund provides the business assistance to the bednet manufacturer--AtoZ Corporation--to create a sustainable enterprise that serves the poor of Africa.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $8,593

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $8,593.  The original project funding goal was $47,500.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will reinforce the importance and potential of market-based approaches to problems of poverty.

Project Message

"I was sleeping without a net and I was covering my body with a bedsheet and the whole night mosquitoes would bite me. Since Saturday night I slept so well and no more mosquito noise or biting."
- Old man living in a mud house, Bednet customer

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Anuj Shah,
CEO, A to Z textiles
A to Z Textile Mills Limited
P.O. Box 945
Arusha,
Tanzania
+ 255 27 2548888
Email:

Project Sponsor

Acumen Fund

Organization

Acumen Fund Logo Acumen Fund
74 Trinity Place, 9th Floor
New York, New York 10006
United States
212-566-8821
http://www.acumenfund.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Tanzania and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Tanzania, read the Human Development Report on Tanzania or the Wikipedia entry for Tanzania.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on April 25, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 12, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Update on your gift to fight malaria

By Acumen Fund newsletter - Project sponsor, April 25, 2007 05:25 PM

In commemoration of Africa Malaria Day (April 25), we'd like to thank you for your past contribution to our bednet coupon initiative to make long-lasting insecticide-treated bednets available to the poor through market-based approaches. Your generosity has helped make an impact on the lives of thousands.

As of the end of the first quarter in 2007, A to Z Textile Mills had sold more than 70,000 nets through the subsidized coupon schemeĀ—providing protection from malaria for five years for more than 134,000 people. As part of the program, A to Z launched eight separate distribution channels, including door-to-door saleswomen, street vendors, targeted corporations employing low-income workers, and rural outreach. This diversity allowed A to Z and Acumen Fund to study each channel and establish its potential for scaling up nationally. (You can read more about each of the distribution channels in my journal from my trip to Africa with representatives of google.org in December.)

We have learned a tremendous amount from experimenting in distribution, marketing and pricing for low-income customers. Analysis of A to Z’s direct expenses to date shows that this program’s overhead costs are about $1 per net. We believe the coupon scheme is a cost-effective alternative to a completely charitable model, with the potential to reach communities of people living on $1-2 per day, particularly if we can find a price point that people can afford, and a sustainable subsidy that can help us achieve that price point.

Thank you again for your support as we work to create real change in the lives of the poor by providing access to affordable, critical goods and services.

Kind regards,

Jacqueline Novogratz

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