The Skeeter Beaters Foundation is proud to have partnered with the US Navy and their humanitarian project, Pacific Partnership 2011. This project begins a new effort by SBF to provide survey equipment to Navy doctors and entomologists to donate to local healthcare workers on their tour of the South Pacific in the summer of 2011.

 The USS Cleveland is carrying $3000 of vector survey equipment and backpack sprayers to be donated to healthcare workers in Tonga, Vanuatu, and Micronesia on behalf of Skeeter Beaters.

USN NPMU-5 (Navy Entomology & Emergency Medical Staff) will be providing training in vector and Malaria control and the use of these items.

Click here for an interactive map of the rout to be taken by Pacific Partnership 2011.

                            Pacific Partnership Map

Here is link to you tube video of USS Cleveland departing San Diego March 21st- for Pacific Partnership 2011.

              USS Cleveland Pacific Partnership 2011 Video

Here is a link to interview with Commander Michael Smith MC USN who we are working with this year on the Pacific Partner 2011 mission in the South Pacific.
This interview was taken at the end of February in Vanuatu and he speaks to the upcoming mission in that country next month.

Since 2008, CDR Smith has been a huge supporter of Skeeter Beaters and has worked very hard to get us involved.

                     Commander Mike Smith Mission Video

This is another Commander Mike Smith video discussing the medical mission.

            Commander Mike Smith on PP10 Medical Preparations

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