Air date: November 20, 2011

Host: Barbara Lewis

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Interview: Elise Johnson, Indianapolis student & philanthropist

Two very different stories today, both from the continent of Africa.

Later, we’ll speak with a witness in a chilling and remarkable trial of a doctor accused of helping create tools of chemical and biological warfare during South Africa’s anti-apartheid era in the early 1980s.

But first a report on the campaign to wipe out malaria. Our story comes from a college freshman who is already an international philanthropist.

Elise Johnson just started studying at Stanford University. When she was in high school, she led a project to raise money for bed-nets, to combat the spread of mosquito-borne malaria in Uganda, Senegal and Kenya.

We asked her to take a recorder along, when she delivered $15,000 dollars worth of nets. This is her story.

Additional Resources:

• Watch video describing North Central High School's "NetNight" event, featuring Elise Johnson.
• Find out how you can help deliver nets! Visit the Against Malaria website.

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