April 25th is World Malaria Day and I have been doing some research on the subject. I don’t intend to blast you with info and links and statistics, but you should come away from reading this with one thing:
WE CAN END DEATHS FROM MALARIA!
By now, I am sure you have heard of ( or been a part of) Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter race against CNN to reach one million followers. I would love to believe that it was not only his celebrity status that led to him winning that race, but his pledge to donate 10,000 bed nets to help end malaria related deaths.
Ashton will be continuing his efforts on World Malaria Day, with plans to rally the Twitter community to tweet the following message:
Every 30 seconds a child dies from Malaria. Nets save lives. Support World Malaria Day = https://give.malarianomore.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=356&srcid=246 RT
If this effort works as well as the challenge to reach one million followers, the call to fight malaria will reach a vast majority of the 19 million+ Twitter users by days end! We will be doing our part, and hope that our followers will do theirs.
Please visit Malaria No More for more information about their goal and how you can help end the needless deaths caused by malaria around the world. You can also follow @malarianomore and Ashton Kutcher @aplusk on Twitter for updates and information
You can follow Dagny’s Promise on Twitter @DagnysPromise
Tweet ya tomorrow!
