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ShareKyle Korver Participates in Malaria Awareness Day
Philadelphia 76ers Forward Kyle Korver, NBA Legend Buck Williams, former Washington Wizard Gheorghe Muresan, Washington Mystics’ guard Nikki Blue and Mystics GM Linda Hargrove joined First Lady Laura Bush for Malaria Awareness Day on April 25 in Washington, DC. The event, with Mrs. Bush, Karen Hughes – Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and Admiral Timothy Ziemer, took place at Friendship Public Charter School with the players participating in a basketball shooting contest with the kids from the school. For each basket they make, the NBA will donate a net to “Nothing But Nets.” Following the event, the participants joined President Bush for a Lunch Reception in the Rose Garden at The White House.
In this first Malaria Awareness Day on April 25, NBA Cares, the league's social responsibility initiative, is a founding partner of the UN Foundation’s “Nothing But Nets” campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa, through the distribution insecticide-treated bed nets. To date, “Nothing But Nets” has raised over $5.5 million towards the purchase and delivery of 150,000 bed nets. The campaign’s message is simple, $10, buy a net, save a life.
NBA players Loul Deng (Chicago Bulls), from Sudan, DeSagana Diop (Dallas Mavericks) from Senegal, and Kyle Korver (Philadelphia 76ers) serve as spokespeople for the “Nothing But Nets” campaign, along with the WNBA’s Ruth Riley (San Antonio Silver Stars) and former NBA star Sam Perkins, who both recently visited Angola and Nigeria to observe bednet distribution and see first-hand, the devastating toll Malaria is taking in Africa.
Additionally, NBA All-Stars LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal will be among the over ten NBA and WNBA stars are participating in ‘Idol Gives Back.’ The star-studded event is the finale of a two-night American Idol fundraiser special to benefit relief programs for children and young people in extreme poverty in America and Africa, including the NBA Cares community partner, “Nothing but Nets.” Idol Gives Back, which will be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air live from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles Wednesday, April 25 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX.
Miami HEAT Forward Jason Kapono joined University of Miami students and “Nothing But Nets” partners, Boot Camp participants, faith and business leaders for a Watch Party of American Idol’s “Idol Gives Back”, featuring performances by celebrities including Gwen Stefani, Josh Groban, Pink, Michael Bublé, Annie Lennox, Il Divo and Borat. Throughout the program, viewers will have the opportunity to make donations to “Nothing But Nets.”
Yet another way the NBA has contributed to this cause was in December of 2006, when the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), in partnership with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), initiated a project that could save more than one million Zambians from malaria, most of whom are orphaned or at-risk children. PEPFAR and PMI provided a $1.25 million challenge grant for the initiative, which was matched by a generous group of private sector and individual donors including the NBA, organized by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.
In this first Malaria Awareness Day on April 25, NBA Cares, the league's social responsibility initiative, is a founding partner of the UN Foundation’s “Nothing But Nets” campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa, through the distribution insecticide-treated bed nets. To date, “Nothing But Nets” has raised over $5.5 million towards the purchase and delivery of 150,000 bed nets. The campaign’s message is simple, $10, buy a net, save a life.
NBA players Loul Deng (Chicago Bulls), from Sudan, DeSagana Diop (Dallas Mavericks) from Senegal, and Kyle Korver (Philadelphia 76ers) serve as spokespeople for the “Nothing But Nets” campaign, along with the WNBA’s Ruth Riley (San Antonio Silver Stars) and former NBA star Sam Perkins, who both recently visited Angola and Nigeria to observe bednet distribution and see first-hand, the devastating toll Malaria is taking in Africa.
Additionally, NBA All-Stars LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal will be among the over ten NBA and WNBA stars are participating in ‘Idol Gives Back.’ The star-studded event is the finale of a two-night American Idol fundraiser special to benefit relief programs for children and young people in extreme poverty in America and Africa, including the NBA Cares community partner, “Nothing but Nets.” Idol Gives Back, which will be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air live from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles Wednesday, April 25 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX.
Miami HEAT Forward Jason Kapono joined University of Miami students and “Nothing But Nets” partners, Boot Camp participants, faith and business leaders for a Watch Party of American Idol’s “Idol Gives Back”, featuring performances by celebrities including Gwen Stefani, Josh Groban, Pink, Michael Bublé, Annie Lennox, Il Divo and Borat. Throughout the program, viewers will have the opportunity to make donations to “Nothing But Nets.”
Yet another way the NBA has contributed to this cause was in December of 2006, when the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), in partnership with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), initiated a project that could save more than one million Zambians from malaria, most of whom are orphaned or at-risk children. PEPFAR and PMI provided a $1.25 million challenge grant for the initiative, which was matched by a generous group of private sector and individual donors including the NBA, organized by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.
