God didn't promise days without pain,
laughter without sorrow,
or sun without rain,
But He did promise strength for the day,
comfort for the tears,
and light for the way.

If God brings you to it,
He will bring you through it.

A little girl and her father were crossing a bridge.
The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter:
"Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river." The little girl said:
"No, Dad. You hold my hand."
"What's the difference?" Asked the puzzled father.
"There's a big difference," replied the little girl.
"If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go."

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond..So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting them to hold yours...

Hi,

I think it's important that we not only give more foreign assistance, but that what we do give is spent in the most effectively as possible. To that end, I just sent a letter to the President of the World Bank and a couple of other important development figures asking them to publish information about what aid projects they are funding.

I hope that you'll join me in taking action by sending a letter: http://www.one.org/international/accra/?rc=accrataf

We've seen aid achieve some amazing things in recent years - like over 29 million more children in school for the first time, and over 2 million more Africans with access to AIDS medications. But some aid money could be spent more effectively, and this is our best chance to make it happen.

Thank you

The human rights situation in China has deteriorated in the run-up to its hosting of the Olympic Games this year, Amnesty International says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7529453.stm

BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.

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Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the exhibit.

"Then he went over to the figure and ripped off the head," a police spokesman said.

The man tore off the head in protest at the exhibit, the spokesman added. The police were alerted and arrested the man, who did not resist. He was being investigated for assault and damaging property.

The waxwork figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life was criticised as being in bad taste. A media preview of the new branch of Madame Tussauds on Thursday was overshadowed by a row over the exhibit.

Critics said it was inappropriate to display the Nazi dictator, who started World War Two and ordered the extermination of Europe's Jews, in a museum alongside celebrities, pop stars, world statesmen and sporting heroes.

Dressed in a grey suit, the figure of Hitler gazed downwards with a despondent stare, his arm outstretched on a large wooden table with a map of Europe on the wall of his gloomy bunker.

About 25 workers spent about four months on the waxwork, using more than 2,000 pictures and pieces of archive material and also guided by a model of the "Fuehrer" in the London branch of Madame Tussauds where it is standing upright.

It is illegal in Germany to show Nazi symbols and art glorifying Hitler and the exhibit was cordoned off to stop visitors posing with him.

Unobtrusive signs asked visitors to refrain from taking photos or posing with Hitler "out of respect for the millions of people who died during World War Two". Camera surveillance and museum officials were meant to stop inappropriate behaviour.

Institutions such as the foundation for Germany's central Holocaust memorial site condemned the idea of the exhibit as tasteless, saying it had been included to generate business.

The wax figure is the latest in a gradual breaking down of taboos about Hitler in Germany more than 60 years after the end of the war and the Holocaust in which some six million Jews were killed.

The 2004 film "Downfall" provoked controversy as it portrayed the leader in a human light during the last days of his life and last year a satire about Hitler by Swiss-born Jewish director Dani Levy was released in Germany.

(Reporting by Paul Carrel and Sabine Ehrhardt; editing by Ibon Villelabeitia)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080705/tod-uk-germany-hitler-head-1a5e080.html

Hello and thanks for your interest in volunteering for ONE:

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Nigeria’s nuclear programme is causing concern among the world’s Group of Eight (G8) nations, THISDAY has learnt.
The G8 – comprising world’s most industrialised democracies, the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), Japan, Russia, Italy, France, Germany and Canada – is worried about Nigeria’s ability to handle the safety and security obligations associated with use of nuclear technology.
The US has been leading the campaign against uranium enrichment for nuclear technology by Iran and North Korea, and although Nigeria’s nuclear programme is purely for power generation, the G8 nations are said to be uncomfortable with it.
Confirming this to THISDAY, the Director-General of the Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NNRA), Professor Shamsedeen Elegba, said the G8 countries had expressed their concerns over the country's readiness to fulfil safety and security obligations associated with the establishment of nuclear power plant in the country.
The D-G, who spoke to THISDAY at the end of a week-long capacity training programme on nuclear energy safety issues, said though the countries agreed that Nigeria needed nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, the concerns are whether the country could adequately ensure safe and secure deployment of the facility.
“Most of them are cynical about our level of safety and some even question our level of responsibility because it is something that just one little mistake, everybody is affected,” he said.
In April 1986, there was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the old Soviet Union, regarded as the worst in history, resulting in a severe release of radioactivity into the environment following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor.
Thirty people died in the explosion, but further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area, including western Soviet Union, Europe and as far as eastern North America.
Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were highly contaminated, leading to the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people.
The 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organisation (WHO), attributed 56 direct deaths – 47 accident workers, and nine children with thyroid cancer – and estimated 4,000 extra deaths due to cancer among the approximately 600,000 most highly exposed and 5,000 among the six million living nearby.
Speaking on whether the reservation expressed by the world powers would affect Nigeria's nuclear energy ambition, Elegga said they were only concerned about safety issues which the country was trying hard to address.
“What everybody is worried about is the level of safety because the nuclear industry is highly regulated, just like the aviation sector. It is highly regulated because one accident is too many and therefore everybody is particularly worried about our levels of preparedness, especially the regulatory authorities. They want to be sure that all uses, whether within the country or being transported in and out of the country, are appropriately provided for in terms of safety,” he said.
Elegba said Nigeria had made significant progress in the area of safety efforts, adding that the country had ratified the convention on nuclear safety which meant that “we are bound to comply with all the requirements for safety of nuclear installations in the country. We are also a party to the convention of physical protection of nuclear materials and installation which makes it mandatory on us”.
He said Nigeria was also reviewing her laws to make sure that adequate resources were made available to ensure safety and security of nuclear materials in the country.
The D-G said the target date for establishment of nuclear power plant would be determined after an agreement on the supply of the reactor had been reached with the producers.
“It is after an agreement has been signed with suppliers of nuclear reactors that NNRA can be in a position to issue licence as to where the plant can be sited as well as the design of the building,” he said.
According to him, part of the role of NNRA was to also issue licence for the commissioning and decommissioning of the nuclear power plant.
He said the lifespan of most nuclear power plants is usually 50 years, and the authority is empowered to ensure that adequate preparations are made on how to dismantle the nuclear facility at expiration.
The licence would stipulate among other conditions how to manage the radioactive wastes that come with it.
The D-G said the training programme was meant for front line officers from the various security organisations on safety and security of radioactive and nuclear materials.
Elegba explained that owing to the general concern on nuclear safety, NNRA was emphasising the need to have a Memorandum of Understanding with participating agencies so as to facilitate the integration of safety programmes into the curriculum of various training courses.
“We are working with the security agencies and organisations over the past seven years to ensure that radioactive sources imported, used or transported within the country are kept safe. One of the responsibilities of NNRA is to help improve the competencies of these security organisations,” he said.
He said the first step was to provide them with adequate monitoring tools and then to have an MoU signed between them and NNRA, so that at the end of the day, nuclear safety would be part of the topics to be covered by the agencies in their training schools.

From Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja, 06.30.2008

http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/africa/ 652401.stm

Tuesday, 22 February, 2000, 16:11 GMT

Ghanaian attends own funeral

Mourners at a Ghanaian funeral were astounded when the "dead" man arrived for the ceremony, reports Kweku Sakyi Addo from Accra.

There has been drama about life and death in the village of Adaklu-Dabalu in the Volta region of Ghana, with a moral about who is more deserving of the family's money - the living or the dead.

It began when Cujoe Gokah, 32, who had had surgery for a hernia, could not raise 450,000 cedi ($120) to pay hospital bills.

After several fruitless attempts by the hospital to get the family to pool the cash to pay the bill, surgeon Dr A K Tachie came up with a fundraising idea bound to hit the target.

According to the Ghanaian Times, the surgeon sent a message to Cujoe's family that he had died.

Prompt response

The response was prompt and efficient. The family sent a delegation to settle all the medical bills, and arrange for the body to be handed over for the funeral and burial.

A few days later mourners arrived dressed in red and black chanting funeral dirges and singing the praises of the one they had lost

They had even bought a coffin which they brought along.

Suddenly Cujoe appeared in the door, to the astonishment of the mourners. The doctor explained it had been his ploy to get them to pay Cujoe's bills.

Their joy at finding Cujoe alive was much stronger than any anger at the doctor's trickery.

Talcum powder

Their dirges turned to songs of happiness. They covered Cujoe from head to toe in talcum powder which is a symbol of triumph, and carried him shoulder high.

Instead of weeping there was dancing and singing and merrymaking all night when they returned to Cujoe's village.

They returned the coffin to the coffin maker who graciously took it back and returned their money.

Cujoe has since become a tourist attraction. Schoolchildren are playing 100 cedi a time to see a man who once - sort of - died, but now lives.

Prison vs Work

Just in case you ever get these two environments mixed up, this should make things a little bit clearer.

@ PRISON - You spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell
@ WORK - you spend the majority of your time In an 6X6 cubicle /office

@WORK - you get a break for one meal and You have to pay for it
@ PRISON - You get three meals a day fully paid for

@WORK -you get more work for Good behavior
@ PRISON - You get time off for good behavior

@ PRISON -The guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you
@ WORK -You must often carry a security card And open all the doors for yourself

@ PRISON -You can watch TV and play games
@ WORK-you could get fired for watching TV and playing games

@ PRISON -You get your own toilet
@WORK- you have to share the toilet with Some people who pee on the seat

@ PRISON -They allow your family and friends to visit
@WORK- you aren't even supposed to speak To your family

@ PRISON -All expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required


@ WORK- you get to pay all your expenses to go To work, and they deduct taxes from Your salary to pay for prisoners

@ PRISON - You spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out
@ WORK -you spend most of your time wanting To get out and go inside bars

@ PRISON -You must deal with sadistic wardens
@ WORK -They are called managers

-- A Chinese policewoman is being hailed as a hero after taking it upon herself to breast-feed several infants who were separated from their mothers or orphaned by China's devastating earthquake.

Police officer Jiang Xiaojuan, 29, was feeding nine babies at one point.
Officer Jiang Xiaojuan, 29, the mother of a 6-month-old boy, responded to the call of duty and the instincts of motherhood when the magnitude 7.9 quake struck on May 12. "I am breast-feeding, so I can feed babies. I didn't think of it much," she said. "It is a mother's reaction, and a basic duty as a police officer to help." The death toll in the earthquake jumped Thursday to more than 51,000, and more than 29,000 are missing, according to government figures. Thousands of children have been orphaned; many others have mothers who simply can't feed them.

At one point, Jiang was feeding nine babies. "Some of the moms were injured, their fathers were dead ... five of them were orphans. They've gone away to an orphanage now," she said.

She still feeds two babies, including Zhao Lyuyang, son of a woman who survived the quake but whose breast milk stopped flowing because of the traumatic conditions.
"We walked out of the mountains for a long time. I hadn't eaten in days when I got here and my milk was not enough," said that mother, Zhao Zong Jun. "She saved my baby. I thank her so much, I can't express how I feel."
Liu Rong, another mother whose breast milk stopped in the trauma, was awed by Jiang's kindness.
"I am so touched because she has her own baby, but she fed the disaster babies first," Liu said. "If she hadn't fed my son he wouldn't have had enough to eat."
Jiang has became a celebrity, followed by local media and proclaimed on a newspaper front page as "China's Mother No. 1."
She's embarrassed by the fuss.
"I think what I did was normal," she said. "In a quake zone, many people do things for others. This was a small thing, not worth mentioning." See the quake zone »
There has been a huge outpouring of support from families who want to adopt babies orphaned by the quake. But that process takes time and there are mouths to feed.

Jiang misses her own son, who's being cared for through the emergency by in-laws in another town, but she is aware of the new connections she's made.
"I feel about these kids I fed just like my own. I have a special feeling for them. They are babies in a disaster."

Watch the officer care for babies »

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/22/china.breastfeed/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

No Safe Heaven for the African
By Njoku SaintJerry A.
www.artseffx.com


In the book AK-47 in a Wild Why World (Contemporary African Issues - Amazon) the author was privileged to foresee some dangerous signals trailing the entire Black Africans and he put them down into a book under the caption "The Great Prophecy".

Our kind of politics, our kind of religious practices, our kind of social v alues and general life expectancy of this generation of Africans an the future. But sometimes I doubt our reading culture and ability and I am a little afraid of the future and safety of people who don't read but love to talk, complain, argue and love to be heard all the time rather than listen.

Today, South Africa is burning, Kenya just done burning and probably still smoking, Sudan is burning, Zimbabwe is burning, Nigeria is heating up and might explode any day - There is nothing anybody can do about that.
Take a closer look; wherever you come across Nigerians in any place in the world - they're very angry and bitter about those who rule them and the scary thing is they're reproducing.

The Zimbabweans are so afraid of those who rule them so they run away from home, Kenyans have been reduced to pawns by those who rule them - they stringed them on chords of ethnicity. But it's been always there, a ready tool of violence. Some are runnin g away from home already.
The Sudanese are divided by religion; the Black Africans against the ruling Arabs laced up with same strange word 'ethnic'. Group A is poised to wipe out group B and Group B is helplessly fighting back.

The people of the world feel concerned and have been effortlessly struggling to aid them stitch up the rift of hatred and ignorance that has set the entire African continent on the precipice.
Nobody can stop this except the Africans.

There've been too much of talking and meetings, too much of policies and analyses across many African regions, but the people are still running, into cold places of comfort and frustration - visit the internet, there are over a thousand Yahoogroups owned by Africans, some are discussing ideas, many are having a cyber fun and have become garrulous at the privilege of electricity over their head while their home rots in darkness - They argue and argue and talk at the touch of a button while their home burns in misery and neglect.
The bitter truth is; No Africans is safe wherever he or she is hiding at while Neo-colonialist, lawless groups and criminals rule the continent at the grip of guns and batons.

It's virtually easy to let things run loose, it's tough to get real people together, it's tough to build one ideal home - everybody is shouting; "This government is unproductive, Obasanjo is evil, Mugabe is a wicked dictator, Kibaki is a typical Africans despot, Omar al-Bashir's is running Sudan for the Arabs, they're killing people for Allah.
They're destroying their own homes.

The flicks of Sudanese refugees in the desert on a CCTV 4 (China Central TV Channel 4) documentary are disturbing - so many guns and so much hunger.
Couple of days behind, it was a Front-Page Headline for Guangzhou Daily, smokes billowing in thick black and red, black Africans heads clustered amidst ruins in the front-page picture; I asked the Chinese newspaperman "What's that?" He pouted and sneered; "Nigeria". "Nigeria what?" I asked back in 'Chinglish'.
He replied; "Nigeria oil burning"!

You see, It's an environmental thing, The South Africans who're killing and burning innocent brothers and sisters in the streets of Pretoria scarcely could tell why the hatred. The MEND rebel group locked up in the swamps of the Niger-Delta of Nigeria, threatening the security of every lives and property in the region is wielding a fierce battle against neglect and attention vehemently denied them and have found a safe heaven in the creeks and swamps with mosquitoes for comfort while those who make them rebel are hiding within a false enclave called Abuja, couple of miles away from the Niger-Delta and a sharp contrast from the environmental decay and frustration of those who'll soon repeat the spiral crisis and struggle of the neglected people across Africa.
Visiting Nigerians and tourist from America, the UK and Europe are flooding down to Abuja to buy up outlets and homes they might never live in as the city environmentally flex muscle with some cosmopolitan cities in London. It's a veiled city of bottled up grouse that'll explode one day. The rebel groups are rehearsing.

There's a dangerous signal so many of us could barely interpret - we think we're safe in our false hideouts in the US, the UK and Europe. Africans are running away from home to some developed environments they consider promising and safe. Nobody is asking why the mad run, what prompted this exodus?
What is happening in South Africa today is brewing in Ghana, in Togo, across other African countries. Libya is a better leading example of an African nightmare while natives of smaller African countries struggle to get out in rafts, canoes and through a donkey ride to Europe.
Ou r environment makes us run.

October 2000, more than 4,000 Nigerians were fortunate to be repatriated from Libya following clashes involving the migrant Africans, especially West African citizens and their Libyan hosts, the deportees, narrated harrowing tales of their experience in Libya, anger flared up. About 500 Nigerians were killed during the attacks. The Libyans are deporting more, 163 Black Africans persons were bundled out by May 2008.

In Asia, the people are taking a closer observation of Africans while Nigerians top the list of 'Special Countries' with a negative profile.
At the Departure wing of Hong Kong International Airport, the uniformed immigration officer yells. "You Nigerians" and the young Black guy replied "What"? The immigration officer replied, "Why don't you stay in your country and get organized for once?"

And the young man said; "but m y government have a diplomatic tie with your government, do you have a problem with that?"
"The officer sneered; "which government?" Do you have a government?" Listen my friend, the day you have a government we'll know" The young black guy smiled at the insult and went his way.

The truth is; as the author have outlined in the first 91page section of the book AK-47 in a Why Wild World It's a cultural thing, the kind of culture we practice automatically defines our environment. When a people's culture is threatened, their whole life is at risk, they suddenly lost direction, they lost value for life because culture defines the values and way of life of people and once things have gone that awkward, people will resort to place of animals, it was never an African thing to disrupt the peace of our own community and hunt your own brothers like wild games - You may wish to quote me wrong on the issues of slavery - Most of the people sold into slavery before the entrepreneurs took the business serious were 'the Charlatans, the Outcasts' the kind of people ruling the entire continent of Africans today were the 'first to be sold' kind of slaves.

For goodness sake; We do believe in the divine and you can't afford not to give account of your stewardship; You dare not steal from the community and go scot-free, you dare not indulge in falsehood and still belong to our Africans traditional society, You dare not neglect your children and your household and walk tall among men, you dare not take advantage of the poor nor insult your people and go scot-free, You dare not take our monies contributed through 'isusu' (cooperative thrift) and be bold to face any member of the community.
Why all the shouts about Poverty Alleviation and Job creation and a group of people are assigned to head that institution without any visible sign of progress. A nd they're giving analyses - of what?

Why all that Chest thumping of economic progress amidst dilapidated infrastructures and environmental decay that might compel some Africans to stay back at home and invest their talents in Africa and nobody is budged at such insult on the psyche of the Africans - He love to talk, he love to be heard by holding meetings, press conference and presenting phony analyses of this and that, always analyzing! He does a lot of shouting against these injustice and sheer ignorance both online and on newsprints but give him a political office, rub some stolen monies into his hand - He'll simply change attitude!
That's the summary of the life of a typical dumb criminal minded African.

But the truth is nobody is safe with this kind of attitude and level of ignorance permeating through our communities, our culture and worse still, our religious practices.

Religion is supposed to reform people to sane and self-conscious individuals - at the rate we've had it.
Our carelessness is hunting us all, our neglect of social values, our neglect of simple education, our neglect of our own environment and discipline, our struggle with ignorance and irresponsibility to our own home is going to hunt us all down and should we dare run. Nowhere can contain us.
South Africans have come up with one prophetic example. This crisis has been brewing for quite a long time and has finally exploded.

The people wielding batons and setting human beings on fire in this age of creativity are black brothers - Africans - Not whites, Not Asians but our own brothers; a young Zimbabwean cried bitterly as his brothers were clubbed to death. "I thought I would be safe here because Mugabe is a serial killer. But these locals are just as bad," he said.

Why all the mad run away from home? Does this bother your sense of belonging at all? Ask a Nigerian young man why all that harrowing experience crossing the hot desert to Europe and he replies; "the government, our environment makes me run, I have no hope in the country and if I don't run my life is useless here"
I repeat; it's an environmental thing. If your uncles, friends and bulgy tummy Daddy's did not ruin the system entrusted into their care, destroyed their own homes with their brazen abuse of civility and some unmatched ignorance found among untamed animals in the jungle. We sure would be far better in our homes than all these blind run to false places of hope and comfort.

Asia has not been fascinating but the throng of young Africans in the streets of Guangzhou with Nigerians in the lead is a disturbing eyesore.
Everyone is responsible for the blood spilled in the streets of South Africa today, but the worse thing is; this animosity is spreading like a wild fire across the entire African continent due to sheer neglect to build our own homes and absorb our own people.

Until we all begin to disrespect the people who make us run away in the first place by boycotting them completely whenever they shuttle this same cold places of comfort they consider a safe heaven, No one is safe anywhere, not even the corporate robbers looting and destroying our homes in the name of 'policies and analyses' that has not been able to build one decent block of classroom and provide simple amenities.
I would counsel you my brother to find a copy of the book
AK-47 in a Wild Why World-Amazon ) and find out what's worse to come and where you've got it all wrong and what impact could you play to douse this flame of hate, greed and ignorance before all these bottled up aggression explode and consume everyone.

Read Full Scripts here:
http://www.artseffx.com/features260508safe.html

You Never

You never said I'm leaving
You never said goodbye
You were gone before I knew it,
And only God knew why
A million times I needed you,
A million times I cried
If Love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died
In Life I loved you dearly
In death I love you still
In my heart you hold a place,
That no one could ever fill
It broke my heart to lose you,
But you didn't go alone
For part of me went with you,
The day God took you home

An appropriate poem..
In memory of my father..

Nigeria among the world oil producing countries has suffered alots of this resourse - many questions has been asked within and outside Nigeria if this natural wealth are blessings or curse to Nigerian.

For the past years Nigeria has been victims of mismanagement of oil and it'sfunds that has contributed atleast 35% jobless of it citizens and has cost many to leave the country in search of greener lands elsewhere but some say they like travelling which is not truth when properly analyzed but rather the hazardious and risky conditions which many found it diffcult to cope with, while many remaining undoubtably proved the existance of niger delta militant and many, many other calling for proper using of the wealth to better it's citizens.
Oil/ Fuel has been causing alots of disaster in Nigeria..eg Yesterday 46 Nigeria solider lost their lives when their car colided with a Tanker carrying fuel, At least 100 people died after fuel from a ruptured pipeline caught fire and exploded in Nigeria on 17th May 2008.
More than 200 people have been killed in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos.26 Dec 2006
Tuesday, 15 August, 2000, 11:29 GMT Another pipeline explosion in Nigeria Reports from Nigeria say there's been another pipeline explosion, which killed eighteen people.
Reports from Nigeria say there's been another explosion in an oil pipeline in the southern Delta state.. The latest incident brings the number of such explosions to six in the past three weeks.
31 Jul 2000 etc.....

Kidnappings and pipeline explosions are common in Nigeria's Niger Delta region, where local groups complain that they do not see the benefits of the area's oil wealth.

Farmers are also complianing of oil polutions and its effect to lives in the rivers etc....

All this has been a major problems that faces Nigeria and its government to crub out all this problems so that we can enjoy this God freely given wealth like other nations and our should not be a curse instead.

Trustworthiness
Be honest • Don’t deceive, cheat or steal • Be reliable — do what you say you’ll do • Have the courage to do the right thing • Build a good reputation • Be loyal — stand by your family, friends and country

Respect
Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule • Be tolerant of differences • Use good manners, not bad language • Be considerate of the feelings of others • Don’t threaten, hit or hurt anyone • Deal peacefully with anger, insults and disagreements

Responsibility
Do what you are supposed to do • Persevere: keep on trying! • Always do your best • Use self-control • Be self-disciplined • Think before you act — consider the consequences • Be accountable for your choices

Fairness
Play by the rules • Take turns and share • Be open-minded; listen to others • Don’t take advantage of others • Don’t blame others carelessly

Caring
Be kind • Be compassionate and show you care • Express gratitude • Forgive others • Help people in need

Citizenship
Do your share to make your school and community better • Cooperate • Get involved in community affairs • Stay informed; vote • Be a good neighbor • Obey laws and rules • Respect authority • Protect the environment


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April 25, 2008 marked the first ever World Malaria Day. The United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign teamed up with millions of Americans, the UN, and our partners to take action and help cover a continent with bed nets. It's never been easier to send nets and save lives.

More than 16,000 people played our new game, Deliver the Net, and had a bed net sent to Africa on their behalf, from Vestergaard Frandsen, a bed net manufacturer; Nearly 350 supporters across the America hosted NETS Challenge events, ranging from billiards tournaments to basketball games to bake sales;
Together we raised more than $550,000 - that’s 55,000 lives saved!
Supporters attended events hosted by our partners in cities across the country, including Chicago, Houston, Dallas, and Denver;
UN Foundation Founder and Chairman, Ted Turner; sports columnist and Nothing But Nets spokesperson, Rick Reilly; and our mascot, the mosquito; recognized World Malaria Day by ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on April 25.


Check out some pictures from World Malaria Day!
http://www.nothingbutnets.net/about-the-campaign/world-malaria-day-2008.html