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The UN Foundation has been working with the UN to fight malaria for years. But it was a column that Rick Reilly wrote about malaria in Sports Illustrated--and thousands of letters and donations from people like you--that led to the creation the Nothing But Nets campaign.

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To save a life is to save the world

Submitted by Stephanie Garry Tatge on February 27, 2009

I had no idea what to expect when traveling to Kenya to visit refugee camps in Dadaab. I had been on a safari to Kenya 14 years ago with my husband and son and so loved the air of the land and the romance of the sky and the vistas of animals on our planet. While I knew this trip would be of a different nature, I could not have prepared myself for the overwhelming experience I was about to have.

After our 24-hour journey from New York we arrived in Nairobi for six hours of sleep before departing for Wilson Airport to catch our flight to Dadaab. On a 19-seater UN charter flight we met others from UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency), members of a film crew and a few doctors from Kenya who donate a few days every other month to "help" out in one of the three camps - Hagadera, Dagahaley and Ifo.

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