To create broader awareness about malaria among high school students and encourage participating schools to raise at least $1,000 from dance proceeds to support malaria control. Each school's donation will help provide 100 life-saving bed nets, protecting at least 200 children from malaria.
Over a three-year period, Malaria No More will partner with 10,000 Stayin' Alive dances nationwide, raising a total of $10,000,000. Funds will be used to secure 1,000,000 bed nets, protecting 2 MILLION vulnerable children.
Register now and we'll give you the information and tools to get started.
To join Stayin' Alive please provide the following information:
- Participation in a national program with global reach
- The opportunity to save lives from an urgent health crisis
- Leadership development on an important global issue
- Fulfillment of school service requirements
- Recognition through Malaria No More's national media campaign
- A letter of commendation from the First Lady
Malaria is completely preventable and treatable, as proven by its eradication in developed countries including here in the United States in the late 1940's. Yet more than 50 years later, malaria remains the number one killer of children under five in sub-Saharan Africa, and continues to threaten 40 percent of the world's population with the risk of infection. The toll of this deadly disease is staggering:
- Malaria kills more than 3,000 children every day, and over 1 million every year. (To put the numbers in context, 280,000 were killed in the devastating Asian Tsunami of 2005. Malaria quietly kills three times that number every year)
- 350 to 500 million cases of malaria occur annually
- 90% of deaths from malaria occur in Africa
Humanity has virtually eliminated deaths from small pox and polio, now it is our turn to erase the suffering brought on by malaria.
Your high school's contribution will go directly to helping Malaria No More purchase and distribute life-saving bed nets (click here, for a break down of how your donor dollars are used).
Malaria No More is an organization founded by leading non-governmental institutions to take on malaria. Launched at the White House Summit on Malaria in December 2006, and featured on Fox's "Idol Gives Back" charity special, Malaria No More's aim is to engage individuals, organizations, and corporations in the private sector to provide life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in need. Together these investments will significantly reduce malaria infections and make malaria-related deaths a thing of the past.
Malaria No More works in partnership with the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI); UNICEF; the American Red Cross; the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Millennium Promise; United Way of America; United Nations Foundation; the Global Business Coalition; and others.
Downloadable materials to help YOUR school host a succesful Stayin' Alive event!
Program Introduction
Get Involved - a step-by-step guide to becoming a Stayin' Alive member school
Brochure - Share the Stayin' Alive program
Press Release - Learn about the August 25th, 2007 launch of the national program.
How to Host an Event
Stayin' Alive Toolkit - Whether your planning a dance or another school event, this toolkit will provide you with a step by step process to achieve success!
Dance Poster - Here's a poster to help publisize your stayin' alive dance. If this doesn't fit your event, feel free to get creative and make your own posters.
Fundraising Letters - You may choose to ask parents or local businesses to contribute to your fundraiser. Here are two letters which can help you solicit funds and resources for your event.
Outreach and Education
Malaria Primer - Educate yourself and your school about the devestating global impact of malaria.
Malaria No More Primer - Learn more about the organization, it's mission, and its efforts to date to help protect vulnerable families in Africa from malaria.
Malaria Powerpoint - Use our educational powerpoint to conduct a class presentation on malaria.
"The Gift of Growing Up" Video - An 11-minute video on malaria. Use it as a part of a movie-night fundraising event, or screen it in the classroom as a part of a presentation on malaria.
Educational Posters - A series of posters that can be used to share key facts about malaria with your school. Use them around campus while your publisizing your Stayin' Alive event, or ask to post them in your science classroom.
Sample Press Release - Use this press release to reach out to local and regional media about your school's initiative.
Press
Space Coast Chronicle- October 2007 - Malaria No More
Florida Today – September 2nd, 2007 - Charity Expands from school
Amnesty International, Article 26 Newsletter- September 2007 - Small Acts, Big Impact
Florida Today - September 18th, 2007 - High school students fight malaria
Seattle Times- September 26th, 2007 - Q & A Section "High school activities"