What Can You Do?

• Donate
• Buy jewelry and t-shirts
• Start your own NETwork Against Malaria Chapter
• Have a jewelry drive
• Help NETwork Against Malaria make jewelry
• Shovel snow, water flowers, or rake leaves for donations
• Invite NETwork to talk at your school
• Use our Grade school curriculum to teach your class
• Sell lemonade on your street corner
• Host a beading event
• Organize a bake sale
• Plan a benefit concert
• Collect Office Supplies- Paper, staplers, software, cds, DVDs, cameras, etc.
• Mail us your old cell phones to recycle
• Host a Battle of the Bands
• Set up a tournament
• Customize T-shirts for events in your community
• Have an art show and sell your beautiful work
• Collect Change at your school, church, or sports games
• Organize a competitive penny drive or donation collection
• Sell t-shirts and jewelry
• Design promotional materials
• Write for the newsletter
• Collect pledges for a 5k, marathon, or sports event (i.e. a nickle per basket/ three dollars per mile)
• Give presentations to class mates, churches, youth groups, etc.

Think of your own ideas. Fresh ideas are always welcome. Volunteering is more fun if you personalize it and do what you love.

Have fun with NETwork. Volunteering and saving lives should be things you enjoy!
We Can't Wait to Hear from you: NETworkAgainstMalaria@gmail.com




**Please e-mail NETworkAgainstMalaria@gmail.com for a copy of the curriculum.

Key Chain Days

So volunteering is sort of like making NETwork jewelry. Sometimes its a safety pin bracelet day and you feel like spending hours volunteering to alleviate the suffering of others. Other times it's a key chain day and a couple of minutes is just right. Either way, giving your time is great.

Weather you're in a safety pin mood or a key chain mood, there is always something you can do to help, always some way to get involved.

Real Men Make Jewelry

“What about you?” the new kid said to me, “What’s your deal? What do you do on the weekends?”

I shrugged.

“Are you a mall rat?” he snickered.

“Watch a lot of TV?” he chided.

I haven’t been to the mall since last semester,” I answered. “When I watch TV – it is movies with friends while we make jewelry.”

“Jewelry-making girls. Ha! Knew it.”

“Not just girls. Guys make jewelry too,” I said. “Real men make jewelry.”

He squinted at me. But I knew I had him. “Yeah, guys make jewelry, necklaces, bracelets, key chains. We make jewelry for this non-proft, NETwork Against Malaria. We use paper beads handmade by ladies in Uganda, combine them with recycled beads. Sell what we make. The money we make goes to buying malaria bednets for kids in Uganda.”

“You do what?”

“Yeah. Malaria kills one child in Uganda every five minutes. It is a terrible disease – high fevers, shakes, death. 300-500 million die of malaria every year in the world. A $10 bednet protects kids from the mosquitoes that spread malaria. Yeah, that is why I say, ‘real men make jewelry’. You should come – we have pizza. Last week I made chocolate chips!”

He smiled, “I’ll think about it.”

I nodded, “Sure, you think about it. You show up and I’ll make sure you get the first piece of pizza.”

The next week he was there. And the week after – two years later he is still coming. We got to be good friends. He can make a pretty sweet necklace, too.

Sometimes it just takes an invite to get somebody involved. You never know where that will lead you. For me it led me to a great friendship and a lot laugh.