You know you have $5 sitting in your PayPal account. You could buy some new iTunes with it. You could even possibly buy porn with it. Why not just do something flat out selfless today and end this Friday on a feel good note.

My former co-worker Todd Sawicki and his wife are trying to raise $500 for some people in Kenya who could simply end up dead due to malaria. How do you help prevent this from happening? Well you start out with simple steps such as malaria nets.

My wife, Katie, and I are trying to raise $500 in a week to help our parish priest, and native Kenyan, provide 100 families in rural Kenya with anti-malarial mosquito nets for their children. We know times are tough economically, but even a small donation of just $5 – roughly your daily triple, non-fat, caramel machiatto – can buy a mosquito net that will keep families safe from malaria carrying mosquitoes.

We are hoping many of you choose to donate $5 for a net (and hopefully more), but please donate what you can, any amount puts us closer to giving a family a life saving tool. It’s important to note that 100% of the money we raise will go directly to buying the nets. No overhead, no wasted donations. Just money to save the lives of poor children in rural, western Kenya from the malaria.

You can go read his post here, or if you feel you have read enough – just donate by clicking here.

Technically Speaking, the choice is yours, but if you want to help – it’s only $5.