Twin Cities Nets takes on malaria

Every year more than one million people around the globe, primarily children in sub-Saharan Africa, die because of malaria. That’s the equivalent of the entire populations of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Plymouth and Eagan perishing at the hands of the mosquito-born disease annually.

Twin Cities Nets, a grass-roots organization founded by Minnesota Independent’s own Paul Demko, is stepping up to the challenge of malaria prevention by hosting a fundraiser for the national nonprofit Nothing But Nets.

The group hopes to raise enough money to purchase 1,000 life-saving malaria nets at a cost of $10 a piece. The New York Times recently profiled the mosquito-net-movement and likened it to a modern-day March of Dimes, which was started in 1938 to fight polio.

The Twin Cities Nets fundraiser will begin 5pm this Sunday, Sept. 14 at the Nomad World Pub.