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Living life "under the net"



by BabyCenter Guest Blogger posted in Parenting

Every time you ?like? and share this post, Johnson & Johnson will donate $1 (per social action), up to $500,000, via the Global Moms Relay to help improve the health and well-being of families worldwide in support of Shot@Life, UNFPA, Girl Up, UNICEF USA and Nothing But Nets.
World Refugee Day is June 20 ? it is an important moment for us all to rally around the millions of refugees living displaced around the world, who have fled conflict, natural disasters, famine, and disease.
For years, the United Nations Foundation?s Nothing But Nets campaign has worked to protect refugees, particularly children, pregnant women, and families from malaria ? a disease which claims the life of a child every two minutes. Refugees often flee with little in their personal possession ? and they need life-saving bed nets to protect them from the mosquitoes that carry malaria.
Last summer, Nothing But Nets visited the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in northwestern Tanzania. There, they met Amisa Batenga, an 11-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who became the subject of their new virtual reality film, ?Under the Net.? Viewers can experience life through Amisa?s life and witness her transition to a new home, new school, and to a health clinic where her youngest siblings are treated for malaria. The team also helped to hang bed nets in her home.

Recently, our partners at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) had a chance to...
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