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 PermaNet® for the African Rainbow Expedition
Jun 03, 2005
Vestergaard Frandsen donated 400 pieces of circular PermaNet® to Kingsley Holgate’s African Rainbow Expedition in Durban. Kingsley Holgate, a South African explorer, will be sailing a Dhow from Durban to Lamu distributing and selling mosquito nets on the way. The principal objective of the African Rainbow Expedition is to use high profile adventures as a means to Support Malaria Prevention.
Kingsley Holgate receives a donation of PermaNet® from Thomas Hansen, Regional Director of Vestergaard Frandsen East Africa One of Kingsley Holgate’s first stops in Mozambique
   
One of the mothers who received a PermaNet® at Kinglsey’s Bobole launch Women with babies receive PermaNet® as part of the African Rainbow Expedition which has also been providing malaria education classes
   
 
Kingsley's journey between Quelimane and Pemba - "a journey which couldn’t be made by vehicle", according to locals.  

For more information on the African Rainbow expedition, please visit:

USAID press release
East Coast Radio
Travel Africa
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