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 […]
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Saving Eyes and Lives
Here’s an email from a Canadian Unite for Sight volunteer in Ghana: Hello, This is a picture of my SansBug 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 […]
I lived in a SansBug for 11 months…
I worked in Haiti for 11 months, and slept in my SansBug mosquito net tent every day. I’ve used it on beds, grass and even concrete floors. I was working on the island of La Gonave as an Environmental Engineer, working for a DC-based NGO. I helped build treated drinking water facilities for the local […]