Spread the Net

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Spread the Net Beat the Mosquitoes
Challenge 2007/2008
School highlights across Canada
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Getting creative to Spread the Net
Alberta

• Friendly competition
• between classes drove
• students at HD Cartwright
• Junior High in Calgary,
• Alberta to organize an
• exciting array of activities
• in support of Spread the
• Net. Students organized
• a dance, hot chocolate
• sale, and email campaign,
• with proceeds supplying
• more than 280 bed nets to
• families in Liberia and
• Rwanda!

UNICEF Regional Director in Alberta Holly
Davidson and Principal Diane Roulson showcase two
cheques by HD Cartwright in support of Spread
the Net
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Alberta

• To celebrate their efforts,
• Olympic gold medalist
• Hayley Wickenheiser, a
• Spread the Net Ambassador
• and native Calgarian, visited
• the school on World Malaria
• Day.

Hayley Wickenheiser speaking at HD Cartwright
Holly Davidson and HD Cartwright students pose
with a hockey shirt signed by Hayley
Wickenheiser. It will be displayed in a frame at
the school.
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Portland Power!
Atlantic

• The Power Play kids
• a leadership group
• made up of 28
• inspirational students
• at Portland Estates
• Elementary School in
• Dartmouth, Nova
• Scotia, lead the entire
• student body, surrounding
• community and feeder
• high school in raising
• funds for Spread the Net.

Students and staff from Portland Estates
Elementary School
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Atlantic

• By distributing posters, flyers,
• notices to parents and
• broadcasting announcements
• at the school, the group
• raised funds to supply nets to
• hundreds of families.
• A cheque was presented at an
• annual UNICEF Chefs event
• along with a moving speech
• rousing several members of
• the audience to further top up
• funds raised by the school to
• an amazing total of 10,000!

• Power Play kids from Portland Estates Elementary
  School present a
• cheque to President CEO of UNICEF Canada, Nigel
  Fisher.

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Fighting malaria other evils of the world
British Columbia

• At Alberni District Secondary
• School in Port Alberni, BC,
• social justice students mobilized
• to support Spread the Net
• empowering other teens to make
• a difference. The social justice
• team creatively promoted
• Spread the Net as part of the
• schools Totem Spirit campaign,
• Which included an annual
• Basketball tournament and skit
• competition.

Students participating in Spread the Net
activities at Alberni District Secondary School
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British Columbia

• The skit featured 'Social
• Justice Super Jimbo fighting
• the symbolic evils of the
• world including 'Climate
• Change', 'Poverty, and 'War'.
• When Super Jimbo arrived
• at the symbolic evil
• 'Disease', he confronted a
• mosquito in a theatrical
• battle. Luckily, UNICEF
• saved the day, giving Super
• Jimbo a bed net, successfully
• wiping away Disease from

Spread the Net display by social justice class
students at Alberni District Secondary
Equipped with mock bed net Super Jimbo scares the
mosquito away.
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First came Band Aid, then Live 8, and
nowYouth Aid!
Ontario

• A group of teenagers from Sacred Heart Catholic
• High School in Newmarket, Ontario organized
• Youth Aid a Beat the Mosquitoes benefit
• concert. Founded by grade 10 student Alex
• OBrien, Youth Aid was modeled after Live Aid
• and featured a roster of youth talent including
• exceptional dancers and musicians. DVDs of the
• concert were sold to increase awareness and
• raise additional funds.

Organizer Alex OBrien and fellow colleague from
Sacred Heart Catholic High School pose with the
Honourable Belinda Stronach
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Ontario

• The school even got their
• town involved, proclaiming
• February 2008 Youth Aid for
• Spread the Net month! These
• exceptional efforts resulted in
• an amazing contribution of
• over 16,500 the highest
• among all schools across the
• country providing 1,650 bed
• nets for impoverished families
• in Liberia and Rwanda.

Students from Sacred Heart Catholic High School
with the Honourable Belinda Stronach .
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Be the change, Beat the Mosquitoes
Prairie

• At John Taylor Collegiate in Winnipeg,
• Manitoba, science students rallied
• around the Beat the Mosquitoes
• Challenge helping to supply over 100
• bed nets, and also joined the Be the
• Change video contest through Quantum
• Shift TV.
• By creating a video to document the
• schools efforts, students helped spread
• the word about malaria prevention and
• entered for a chance to win 50,000
• prize pack for the school.

A video clip made by students at John Taylor
Collegiate.
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Netraising champions rise to the challenge
Quebec

• Students, teachers and staff of the
• International programme at
• Carrefour High School in
• Gatineau, Quebec flexed their
• net-raising muscles through
• several cool initiatives including a
• bowl-a-thon, candy sale and
• malaria quiz sponsored by family
• and friends. The fewer mistakes
• made on the quiz, the more
• money students raised.

Excited staff and students at Carrefour High
Schools launch of the Spread the Net Beat the
Mosquitoes Challenge
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Quebec

• More than 5,000 was
• raised, helping to provide
• more than 500 nets for
• families in Rwanda and
• Liberia! This school also
• ranked highest fundraiser
• in the province of
• Quebec, winning a
• special acoustic
• performance by superstar
• Marie-Mai!

Students from Carrefour High School with Marie-Mai
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Marie-Mai during her performance at Carrefour
High School
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Global Development Village
National
Staff and volunteers of UNICEF Canada and Spread
the Net participated in the Global Development
Village, organized by the Youth of the World. At
this four day event high school students had an
opportunity to participate in workshop activities
promoting awareness of the Millennium Development
Goals, including the prevention of malaria
transmission and other diseases.
Participants during one of the UNICEF
Canada/Spread the Net workshops at the Global
Development Village
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• Students took part in an educational
• workshop, participated in a bed net
• assembly simulation exercise, and
• viewed the Eye See III photo exhibit
• showcasing photos taken by
• children in Liberia and Rwanda.

Students participate in a team activity
simulating the set up of a bed net at a refugee
camp.
Participants viewing the Eye See III exhibition
at Global Development Village