We listen.
We collaborate.
We improve the health of families.
What We Do.
Netlife is tackling malaria by working to address the barriers that exist to using mosquito nets. Last year, we continued working with Senegalese community leaders and youth groups to develop and implement a program that will provide outdoor sleeping resources and education.
From Where It Started
Bandafassi, Senegal
Bandafassi is a medium-sized village about 18 kilometers west of Kedougou on the laterite road to Salemata (pictured). It is significant in that it is one of the local Senegalese government headquarters, but if you roll into Bandafassi, you'd never guess it. Mud and grass huts are the norm and the "electricity" presence consists of a couple of top-loading refrigerators in which you may find a luke-warm Coke, or a street light that may or may not illuminate the dirt path passing through the village.
Bandafassi is also is home to the regional "Poste de Sante", or Health Post. This is a 3 roomed-cement structure that functions as the primary clinic for approximately 44 villages spanning over 100 kilometers. It is staffed by a nurse.
Our Mission
Our founders Jesse and Andy, know and love this area. Andy was Peace Corps volunteers from 2001-2003 in this region and left at the end of their service with a desire to do more.
They founded an organization called NETLIFE which works with villages in the Bandafassi region to provide evidence-based, community-partnered programs, including the access to long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito bednets.
If You Are Interested.
