Question: What is the Orkin Fight the Bite campaign?

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ANSWER  Orkin created its Fight the Bite campaign in 2008 to help raise money for the purchase and distribution of bed nets in Africa, where 90 percent of malaria-related deaths occur among children. From 2008 to 2011, Orkin donated one mosquito net to Nothing But Nets, a campaign started by the United Nations Foundation, with the purchase of every mosquito service. Nothing But Nets provides insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent deaths by malaria in Africa. Orkin’s Fight The Bite campaign, which also included donations, raised more than $820,000 in four years.

One hundred percent of each $10 contribution went directly toward purchasing and distributing a net and teaching the recipient to use it properly.

Orkin created the “Fight The Bite” campaign in 2008 to help raise money for the purchase and distribution of bed nets in Africa, where 90 percent of malaria-related deaths occur among children. From 2008 to 2011, Orkin donated one mosquito net to Nothing But Nets a campaign started by the United Nations Foundation, with the purchase of every mosquito service. Nothing But Nets provides insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent deaths by malaria in Africa. Orkin’s “Fight The Bite” campaign, which also includes donations, raised more than $820,000 in four years.