The Sweat for Nets organizing toolkit and video is available for free. Request a Sweat for Nets toolkit today and start planning a fun and meaningful project that raises awareness about malaria around the world and raises funds to purchase insecticide-treated bed nets.

Read about the Sweat for Nets program below and find out how you can make a difference at home and around the world!





About Sweat for Nets:

Every thirty seconds a child dies of malaria, and worldwide, more children die as a result of malaria than any other disease. Attempts to control malaria have been made increasingly difficult as the disease’s resistance to existing drugs has grown. Yet, for only a few dollars, an insecticide-treated bed net can help keep out the carriers that are killing so many innocent and vulnerable children. 

In response to this worldwide pandemic, Children for Children (CFC) has developed Sweat for Nets™, a web-based and community-centered service-learning and fundraising program to involve school-aged children in an awareness network that enables them to learn and teach others about the urgency of the global fight against malaria. Through Sweat for Nets, children learn the importance of insecticide treated bed nets in preventing the spread of malaria, and methods of raising funds to purchase these nets for their at-risk peers around the world.

You Can Make a Difference!

It is estimated that the widespread distribution of this simple mosquito control could help save the lives of nearly 500,000 children a year in Africa alone. Everyone can help in this effort, including children. There are over sixty million school-aged children in the United States.  If these children were to participate in Sweat for Nets and create a push to educate the public about the urgent need for insecticide-treated bed nets to protect the more than 100 million children exposed to malaria each year, significant strides would be made to combat this deadly disease.

The goal of Sweat for Nets is to motivate young people around the world to address the issue of malaria head-on through education, action, and reflection. Sweat for Nets is a service-learning program that helps benefit both the recipients of the nets overseas as well as the young people who participate in the activities here at home.

All children can understand the need to protect themselves from harm in a simple way such as an insect net. Children who grow up with access to bug spray and sunscreen can understand how all children, including those growing up in other parts of the world, need protection from harmful elements. By helping protect other children from the threat of malaria, the children out of harms way are empowered at an early age to take a global perspective and look at the world as their community at large. As children reach out to others in the face of this deadly disease, they not only fight malaria, but become global citizens, responding to the needs of people from all nations and backgrounds.  


CFC and the CDC Foundation

Children for Children is proud to be partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation on the Sweat for Nets Program, to engage young people from all around the world to get active in the fight against malaria. Through this partnership, Sweat for Nets program participants will be connected to a worldwide network of health professionals and experts who are working hard to fight to save lives and prevent suffering from this terrible disease.

100% of all Sweat for Nets donations will be used by the CDC Foundation to purchase insecticide-treated bed nets and deliver them to CDC-affiliated programs in Africa.

One such program is a Rotary International Safe Water Project in Nyanza Province, Kenya. CDC experts are working with the project's leaders to provide safe drinking water and other services to women widowed by AIDS who, in addition to their own children, typically care for AIDS orphans.

Project leaders rely on donations to purchase insecticide-treated bed netsto distribute to these women to help them protect the children in their care from malaria and other diseases carried by insects.
Program leaders can purchase bed nets for as little as 5 dollars each and each bed net will protect up to three children.

Children for Children would like to thank
Alcoa Foundation for their instrumental support
of the Sweat for Nets service-learning program.





Sweat for Nets Service-Learning Program

Children for Children's Sweat for Nets lesson plans are designed to help teachers and service-learning coordinators incorporate youth service into their schools and communities. Focused on malaria and the significance of this issue as a global pandemic, the lesson plans feature materials for student-led service projects, as well as additional resources to encourage continued dedication to giving and volunteering. Children for Children hopes the Sweat for Nets lesson plans will enable teachers to integrate service-learning into their curricula and encourage their students to Get Active in the Fight Against Malaria.

At the end of each Sweat for Nets lesson plan, teachers and students are encouraged to work together to brainstorm ways to teach others about malaria and to develop Sweat for Nets fundraising activities at school or in their community to help purchase insecticide-treated bed nets.

Sweat for Nets Service-Learning Lesson Plans:

Service-learning offers powerful lifelong benefits. Participants learn responsibility, leadership, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. They experience greater self-respect, character development and self-discipline, increased motivation and engagement in studies, more tolerance and a broader perspective, and possibly improved academic performance.

Grades

K-2 | 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12

Submitting Your Donations

The Sweat for Nets organizer or point person should collect all donations and pledge money from the participating students and then submit one payment to the CDC Foundation (as opposed to each participating student submitting a payment). If your Sweat for Nets activities take place over an extended period, the organizer or point person  may submit multiple, periodic payments to the CDC Foundation.  

Credit card payments may be submitted securely using the Sweat for Nets online donation form. »Click Here to submit your donations.

Checks and money orders should be submitted by mail using the form provided. If a cash payment is your only option, please send cash via registered mail only.  

About Receipts and Acknowledgements

The CDC Foundation can only issue receipts to the individual or organization listed on the check or credit card. If a member of your community wishes to make a significant donation to the program and wishes to receive a receipt for their donation for tax purposes, please ask that individual to make a gift directly to the CDC Foundation using the online giving form or the provided mail-in form. This will ensure that he receives a receipt for his gift. You can ask the individual to include the name of your school or organization in the "Sweat for Nets Activites" section of the form so that her gift will be affiliated with your organization.   If you would like the CDC Foundation to provide a personalized card acknowledging each student's contribution, please attach a list of student names on a separate sheet and enclose with your contribution (or if submitting your payment online, e-mail the list including the name or your school or organization to info@cdcfoundation.org.) The CDC Foundation will send the cards as a packet addressed to the billing address you provided with your payment.  

For more information on Sweat for Nets and Children for Children, please email Erik Zimmerman or call CFC at 212.850.4170.