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A $10 Mosquito Net Is Making Charity Cool [1]

Donating $10 to buy a mosquito net to save an African child from malaria has become a hip way to show you care, especially for teenagers. The movement is like a modern version of the March of Dimes, created in 1938 to defeat polio, or like collecting pennies for Unicef on Halloween.

Publication Date: 
02/06/2008
New York Times (New York) [2]
Tags:
Malaria [3], Africa [4]
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