One Net One Pill One Life
These were the words of Forest Whitaker (academy award winner for his leading role in The Last King of Scotland) on tonight’s inspired 2nd annual two and half hour Idol Gives Back show which raised funds for six causes. Forest was the ambassador for Malaria No More, and definitely gave an emotional appeal for people to call in and donate money.
Earlier today I was lucky enough to be on a conference call with the medical director (Steven Phillips) for ExxonMobil’sfoundation which is a major supporter and funder of the malaria component of tonight’s American Idol show. Phillips traveled to Angola twice this year, once with American Idol contestants and winners and the second time with Forest Whitaker to get them involved in combating malaria. I was joined on the call by Bill Brieger, professor at Hopkins and an expert in malaria, definitely check out his blog - Malaria Matters. Rob Katz of NextBillion and the Acumen Fund fame was the other “blogger” on the call.
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