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About Me:: Save my Soul is a timeless and intimate reflection of the human condition, set amidst extreme poverty, famine, and disease. This album demonstrates the unique healing power that music plays in human life. Save My Soul brilliantly captures vocal and instrumental expressions of hope and optimism that overshadow the bleak conditions in which the 21 tracks were recorded.

For every album sold through this website, we will donate funds to the Rotary Club of Manhattan Beach, Rotary Club of Watts/Willowbrook, or comparable organization capable of matching our funds in order to procure insecticide treated mosquito nets.

The music was recorded while a documentary film crew followed the Los Angeles Watts/Willowbrook Rotary club during its net distributions in Africa. The filmmakers wanted to contribute their resources to help the club’s future efforts in combating malaria. This resulted in creating the music cd: Save My Soul – Music to Prevent Malaria.

If you or your organization is interested in selling this album and/or partnering with us to match our funds, or to receive money to purchase mosquito nets, please contact us.

This rare album was recorded entirely impromptu while a group of humanitarians distributed anti-malaria mosquito nets in Zambia. As the group approached remote villages, camped in the bush, attended masses, visited hospitals and clinics, and explored cities, the album’s producers recorded the music they heard.

Malaria has killed more people than any other disease, ever. If you are not familiar with the continued widespread threat of malaria, the disease kills 3,000 children every day and more than 1,000,000 children every year. The vast majority are under the age of 5. Malaria infects 500 million people every year. Imagine the economic burden on the healthcare system and the crippling effect on workforces that continually see a rise in incidents of the disease. Malaria actually causes poverty. Yet when you talk in terms of one child dying every thirty seconds, the largest consequence is the loss of opportunity, experience, and most importantly: the future.

Even more troubling, malaria is preventable. Insecticide treated mosquito nets (ITNs) are the most cost effective way to protect oneself from infection.

Nets have a significant record of reducing the incidence of malaria. Once a person receives a bed net, they can use it up to four years. Nets are large enough for several children to sleep under. The insecticide treated mesh netting is hung over beds or places of sleep. The net creates a shield between humans and mosquitoes. Mosquitoes that carry malaria generally strike during the nighttime. Therefore, the use of nets greatly reduces the incidence of malaria (studies show up to a 90% efficacy rate).