Guereo

When Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour rolled into this dusty village and bellowed ”How many people want a bed net?”, hundreds of hands shot up into the air. Amid the din of drums and the cries of excitement, Jeffrey Sachs, a special adviser to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan who was also on the scene, said: ”I want Guereo to be the first village in Africa where everyone sleeps under bed nets.”