Even a malaria expert needs protection from mosquitoes in Africa. Dr. Amy Bei, a Harvard-trained, Yale professor who speaks a gazillion languages spends her time between Dakar, Senegal and New Haven, CT. When she’s not fighting malaria, she grows and roasts her own coffee in Senegal, knits and weaves, and is working on her pilot […]
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Helping Non-profits Sleep on the Job
I slept in my SansBug net 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? We would like to introduce you to an awesome non-profit organization that is doing an even more awesome job. InStove Solutions produces […]
World Malaria Day is April 25
Not wanting to be caught in the Sunday evening traffic jam at the Likoni ferry, I left Gazi Bay around 4pm after loading my car with oranges and apple mangoes (a mango cultivar whose flesh is firm, sweet and doesn’t leave fibers sticking in between your teeth). […]