NGOs and non-profits have to travel to some pretty remote places. Places where diseases are rampant and medical help is far away. In such a situation you need a reliable shelter. A shelter which is totally enclosed yet breathable. The SansBug mosquito tent is far superior to regular mosquito nets especially when you have to pack up and travel to new sites every day.
I slept in my SansBug mosquito tent every night and I didn’t get malaria. Our executive director didn’t sleep in his, and he did get malaria.
Say that again? One more time, please?
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Here’s an email from JD, the production manager:
Our project was a success. I slept in my SansBug every night and I didn’t get malaria. (Our executive director didn’t sleep in his, and he did get malaria). So I would say that the mosquito tents worked very well. Thanks so much for the help with our last minute order. Attached is a crappy pic of the SansBug in action in my Nigerian hotel room. Sorry I don’t have anything better.
Thanks Again.
Dr. Hanna Ekstrom is in the business of saving smiles in remote parts of the world, one child at a time. Her team currently serves 9000+ children. They have worked extensively among the Miskito Indians (no, not related to the word mosquito) in northeast Nicaragua. Many of the towns in this area are only accessible by river. When we asked how the SansBug was working out, this is what we got:
We LOVE LOVE LOVE the nets.
I purchased several of these mosquito net tents for my team of dental health promoters. We use them for our NGO when we are on emergency brigades along the Rio Coco, where the mosquitoes are heavy and dengue and malaria are rampant. Since getting these nets, we have not had a single case of mosquito-borne disease!
They are tall enough to sit up in and wide enough to spread out your things comfortably to sleep. I sometimes hang a tiny camping lamp from the “roof” so I can read safely at night, with no bugs sneaking in at the corners of a loose mosquito tent. I recommend these highly if you are camping where there are any annoying bugs.
Here’s an email from a Canadian Unite for Sight volunteer in Ghana:
Hello,
This is a picture of my SansBug mosquito tent in Accra, Ghana. My tent was utterly fantastic. Many others had tents they had to assemble while mine popped up completely on it’s own! Also, it was quite easy to fold and store once you got the hang of it. I am so pleased with what I paid for my tent and how useful it was to me. I would recommend it to anyone travelling to an area where malaria is endemic.
Not only did the SansBug protect me from mosquitoes but it also helped me feel safe to sleep on top of any bed.
Thanks!
Gabriela (Saskatoon, Canada)
Chris, Managing Director of LoneStar – Africa Works, an Austin-based non-profit is working with beekeepers in South Sudan to sell their honey in USA. Here’s part of an email from him after a month-long trip:
The tent worked great. Used the four-fold with the strong cinch strap and packed it carefully in my bag. Kept it in tri-fold once I reached the ground. For the first time since 2009 I could wake up without bites.
In fact I had the best sleep of the whole trip in the SansBug, deployed on the mattress in a tukul hut at the remote farm of our beekeeper-partners. Unfortunately my camera was out of batteries by then.
But everyone who saw it asked about the SansBug. High quality item. Am recommending it to a friend of mine who has moved to South Sudan with his family.
Even when staying in hotels, he preferred to deploy the SansBug since the mosquito nets provided are usually torn.
Here are some more emails and pics from NGOs that helped Haiti during the 2010 earthquake.