This newsletter focuses on different opportunities for our donor partners to invest in our water and health efforts that provide specific and tangible evidence of impact.

Finish the job in Honduras

World Vision has committed to reach everyone, everywhere we work with clean water in Honduras by 2027 based on our footprint in the country in 2020. Finishing the job means 650,000 people will be reached with clean water access in 49 separate municipalities where we work. We recently finished the job in the San Juan municipality, and you can share in the excitement by watching this short video. Our donor partners have currently committed $31.5 million of the $60 million needed from U.S. donors to complete the work across the country.

Water point reports

Since 2016, World Vision has equipped more than 30 million people with life-giving clean water through nearly 300,000 water points. We praise God for these opportunities and pray for many more. Donor partners can fund a water point for $15,000 and receive a report with a photo, GPS coordinates, and the number of people reached by that water point. My family recently funded a water point, and I had the trip of a lifetime with my daughter Meredith to celebrate the completion of one in Zambia with the community. There’s also an opportunity to upgrade an entire school with clean water access, handwashing facilities, and toilets for an investment of $50,000.

Health

World Vision is a global leader in upgrading healthcare facilities, equipping people with on-site clean water access, handwashing stations, and toilets — including for people with mobility challenges. These upgrades also include training community health workers. Through our efforts, we are reaching an estimated one new person every 10 seconds with improved healthcare. The comprehensive efforts to upgrade a community health center can be funded by donor partners for $125,000. To honor this generous investment, we will provide a report with a photo of a clinic, GPS coordinates, and a description of the specific upgrades that are made.   

Community health heroes

World Vision trains community health workers to provide home-based management of common illnesses, which is in many cases lifesaving. These health workers live in the communities in which they work and have established trust among their neighbors. They make regular visits during which they can spot the early signs of illness, malnutrition, or pregnancy complications, and families know where to find them when needed. Each community health worker serves an average of 300 to 500 people in their community.

Life or death

Importantly, these health heroes address the top causes of death among children. Those causes in sub-Saharan Africa are malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, and malnutrition. On a recent trip to Zambia, our team witnessed the heartbreaking reality of what can happen when people do not receive rapid, effective treatment for malaria. We visited an area where World Vision was not yet working to better understand the need for our efforts. The length of the line of people waiting to be tested for malaria was alarming. One girl, Teresa, looked particularly ill. Her mother had not been able to get her to a clinic because it was too far away and was taking advantage of this rare visit by local health workers. Teresa was referred to a hospital, but we learned the next morning that help had come too late. We are determined to help keep more children like Teresa from dying needlessly, and to honor her, we have created a new offer.

New opportunity: Training for community health workers

World Vision, Rotary International, and the Gates Foundation have partnered with the Zambian government and others in an ambitious effort to eliminate malaria from Zambia as well as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique. The bedrock of this effort is the training and equipping of community health workers. Your investment of $25,000 will enable us to train and equip 10 community health workers — serving up to a total of 5,000 people throughout their communities — who will diagnose, test, and treat disease and malnutrition. In addition, Rotary International and the Gates Foundation will match each gift with $50,000 to make an even greater impact.  As with commitments for water points and upgrades for schools and healthcare clinics, we will honor these investments with a report including the GPS coordinates of a specific health clinic where community health workers have been trained and equipped, as well as photos.

Thank you for considering one of these opportunities that will help lead to more lives saved and more people thriving!

Prayer requests

Give praise for all generous donations to World Vison’s water and health work — from “two mites” to multimillion-dollar investments.

Pray for comfort and peace beyond understanding for those who have lost loved ones to easily preventable diseases like diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria.

Pray that our new partnerships in health will continue to reach more people and help save more lives.