Buy Virtual Jeeps For Real Life-Saving Malaria Nets

Nothing But Nets is an awesome fundraising effort built around a powerfully simple fact: an inexpensive mosquito net is the best defense against malaria, a disease that's killing children in the developing world every 30 seconds, it's been estimated.  (Here's a great NYT story on the program.)  Now thanks to master metaverse artist AM Radio (pictured driving, above), Second Life Residents can buy nets in-world with Linden Dollars.  He's selling a very cool, full-featured jeep for L$2500-- which is roughly USD$10 on the open market, which is roughly the cost of a single mosquito net.   You buy a rugged all-terrain vehicle to roar around Second Life in, while AM Radio donates all funds from the purchase via PayPal to Nothing But Nets.

Buy your jeep by clicking this SLURL teleport link that'll take you directly to the vendor.

Thanks to Bettina Tizzy for the tip!

Comments

[Jeeper]

That is not a Jeep, that looks like a Land Rover.

[Nightbird Glineux]

Sounds like a great cause. :) I'll do it later today.