Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay Prevents Malaria Deaths with Bed Nets

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 22, 2009 -- Tampa, FL - Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay (http://www.youthforhumanrights.org) raised the funds to send life saving bed nets (http://www.nothingbutnets.net) to all inhabitants of the African refugee camp Bakavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their action of helping prevent malaria deaths embodies Human Right # 3 "The Right to Life".

By sponsoring the refugee camp the Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay saved 218 lives and corrected some of additional human rights violations, such as Human Right # 14 "The Right to Seek a Safe Place to Live" and Human Right #25, "Food and Shelter for All", giving the refugees more of the rights they deserve.

The Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay learned that every year nearly one million people die of Malaria in Africa and that it is the number one killer of African children.
Malaria infects more than 500 million people a year and kills more than a million - one person dies about every 30 seconds, according to US Center for Disease Control and Prevention Center. Since shelter is inadequate to keep out mosquitoes, which are the leading cause of this deadly disease, those in refugee camps are most vulnerable.

Insecticide-treated bed nets protect potential victims from mosquitoes when the mosquitoes strike most, while they are sleeping.

The camp was found and sponsored by the group working with the Nothing But Nets (http://www.nothingbutnets.net) program, which supplies insecticide treated bed nets to refugees throughout Africa. And how did these kids sponsor this refugee camp? Simple, they asked their friends, "Would you save a life for $10?" With these efforts the group raised enough money to send 109 nets to Bakavu refugee camp, saving the lives of 218 refugees.

As humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard (http://humanitarian.lronhubbard.org) stated, "Human rights must be made a fact, not an idealistic dream",

Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay is a non-profit group that educates their peers in schools, community groups and camps on human rights as laid out in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This is in the belief that the education of human rights will make these rights a reality, and in support of the United Nations' intention to educate the world on these rights, in 1948, it called upon member countries to make the Declaration known and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."

Despite the ongoing efforts of many, 60 years later, the Declaration is still not a required part of

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