ARDEN HILLS, Minn. – The Bethel University women's soccer team will be hosting Night of Nets on Saturday, Sept. 28 when it hosts Hamline out at Ona Orth Athletic Complex. Night of Nets is a global campaign started at Cornerstone University and aims to help end malaria. Since it began eight years ago, Night of Nets has raised over $200,000 to purchase over 35,00 bed nets for families in sub-Saharan Africa.

Every $6 donation or $10 shirt purchase at sporting events provides a bed net that saves lives and creates new opportunities for a child's future! The Royals and for Bethel soccer player/alumni Chip Huber will be selling $10 t-shirts on campus Sept. 27-28.

More information on night of nets can be found by visiting their website at www.nightofnets.org.

THE IMPACT OF MALARIA

Every 2 minutes a child dies from malaria. Spread by the bite of mosquitoes, malaria is one of the world's deadliest predators, killing more than 500,000 children under the age of 5 every year.

PARTNER IN AFRICA

Bed nets will be distributed through a long-term partnership with World Vision. World Vision (www.worldvision.org) is a humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tack- ling the causes of poverty and injustice, serving close to 100 million people in nearly 100 countries around the world.

HISTORY OF NIGHT OF NETS

The Night of Nets campaign started at Cornerstone University has raised over $200,000 to purchase over 35,000 bed nets for families in sub-Saharan Africa over the past seven years. Students from inside and outside the athletic community have traveled to Zambia to play soccer with friends, help deliver bed nets, meet children and families impacted by malaria, and partner in development projects with community leaders.