BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group Invited to Present on Parliament Hill to the All-Party Parliamentary Caucus on Ending Malaria

Kingston, ON

The inaugural meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Caucus will be held Tuesday, March 24^th, 2009 on Parliament Hill.  Led by The Hon. Patrick Brown, M.P., Barrie, Ontario, the primary objectives for the Caucus will be to spur greater Canadian involvement and investment in combating the spread of malaria, and to highlight and promote best practices for the control of the disease.  

BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group is recognized as one of the leading Canadian organizations designed to raise awareness and funds for the purchase and distribution of long lasting insecticide treated bed nets.

Spread through the bite of an infected mosquito, which bites primarily at night while people sleep, malaria is one of the leading causes of death amongst African children, taking a child’s life every 30 seconds.  Bed nets offer a primary wall of defense and effectively and inexpensively stop the spread of malaria.

For more information contact:
Joanne Langlois
Media Consultant
BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group
613-542-1264 or 613-540-1202
joanne@buyanet.ca
www.buyanet.ca

Download the pdf document here

Who: QFAM, Queen¹s University

What: QFAM is organizing a two-day event to help raise money to purchase bed nets for Kawempe, Uganda, through Kingston-based, BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group (BAN).

When: Wednesday, March 11th, 8:00 AM to Thursday, March 12th, 2009, 8:30 PM.

Where: Outdoors, John Deutsch Centre (JDUC), corner University and Union, Queen’s University Campus, and Common Ground, JDUC, Queen’s University Campus.

Specifics:
March 11th 8:00 AM to March 12th, 2:00 PM: QFAM student members will be camping out for 30 hours; one child dies every 30 seconds from Malaria. Come support the cause and BUY-A-NET.

March 11, 2009: BeaverTails from Ottawa will be selling Beaver Tails from 10 AM to 8 PM, corner University and Union, Queen’s Univeristy Campus. Come out and buy delicious beaver tails to help QFAM save lives from malaria.

March 12, 2009, 7:00 P.M. to 8:30 PM: “Our Fight Against Malaria Open Mic Night” will take place at the Common Ground, JDUC, Queen’s University. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about malaria, support the fight, and enjoy musical talent found at Queen’s University. Debra Lefebvre (founder of BUY-A-NET) and other members of the BUY-A-NET team who made a recent trip to Uganda (including several school children) will be speaking.

For more information contact:
Meiling Chen
Queen’s Fight Against Malaria
416-768-2838

Michaela Black
BUY-A-NET Malaria Prevention Group
613-542-1264
buyanet@buyanet.ca
www.buyanet.ca