Mosquito nets open doors to Gospel

CMF missionaries Scott and Annelle Price are seeing hearts open to the gospel in Tanzania because of a simple $10 gift: a life-saving mosquito bed net. As one older man told them: “I thought malaria was from a curse. I didn’t know there was something we could do to not get it.” Thanks to gifts of the treated nets from hundred of supporters, many people in Tanzania have been blessed and encouraged to know that they are not forgotten and that someone cares about them.

In Africa, malaria is a curse, but a preventable and curable one. A child in Africa dies of malaria every 30 seconds. It is a serious threat to life, health and wealth in the developing world. Treated bed nets are a simple, cost-effective solution to the problem of malaria. A Kenyan government study found that for every 1,000 nets used, the lives of seven children were saved. The treated nets kill the mosquitoes before they can find their targets. The greater number of bed nets, the greater the number of mosquitoes eliminated.

Each $10 net covers one bed, but in most homes, several sleep in one bed, so one net can help many members of a family. If many homes in a community receive these nets, incidences of malaria can be reduced by huge percentages, and hundreds of lives will be spared.

For more information about CMF’s “Take a Bite Out of Malaria” project, go here.