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In this edition, you'll read about hope amid the pain of 2020, an exciting announcement about Rwanda, two special virtual events, and how you can support ending harmful practices in Kenya.
2020 was a year filled with painful numbers. Here are a few that might renew your faith in humanity.
Below is an op-ed for Fox Business written by World Vision President and CEO Edgar Sandoval Sr.
Most of us are all too ready to close the book on 2020, a year marked by a global pandemic, economic crisis, racial tensions, and a painful, divisive election. It’s a year that was filled with heartbreaking numbers that could easily rob us of hope. … But beyond the headlines, 2020 also has numbers that bring me hope and help me to see God’s blessings. And I’ll bet they are ones you may not have heard about.
Despite unprecedented obstacles, including a global pandemic, World Vision is celebrating the achievement of a major milestone toward the goal of ensuring everyone, everywhere we work has access to clean water. Thanks to God’s grace and donors like you, on December 15, 2020, we announced that we had raised the $30 million in private donations and multi-year commitments needed to empower all children and families in World Vision’s program areas in Rwanda with clean water.
This means about 1 million people in Rwanda will have clean water within a few years, making it the first country in which we finish the job of ensuring everyone in our program areas has access to clean water. Thank you to all our donors who supported this monumental effort!
In this day and age, the fact that a child younger than 5 dies every 7 seconds is unacceptable — as is that about 295,000 women die every year from causes associated with pregnancy and childbirth. And most of these deaths are preventable.
Having a baby should be a blessing, not a death sentence, and the good news is that we have the solution in our hands.
Join us for a virtual event to hear directly from the people we serve and World Vision staff working in the most fragile contexts. You’ll hear how World Vision is scaling up our high-impact, evidence-based interventions to reach more than 1.4 million women and their children under age 5 with life-saving home-based health and nutrition services and improved health facilities by 2023.
Kenya Big Dream project seeks to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage
February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). An estimated 200 million women and girls alive today have been subjected to this harmful practice. One girl under 18 is married every 3 seconds, limiting her future choices and potential.
But there is HOPE! World Vision’s Kenya Big Dream project gets to the root causes of FGM and child marriage. One such approach is called Alternative Rites of Passage. It’s a week of education that culminates in a ceremony for girls and boys to affirm traditional values and to empower them to create change, as they understand their potential and worth in God’s eyes.
On March 5, join us for an evening of worship, teaching, and conversations with some of today’s most influential leaders. Discover how God is working — from the toughest places around the world to our own country’s halls of power. Leave with tangible ways you can join Him to help renew our world.
Your $25 registration fee gives you access to the event, which features expert speakers and musical performances, plus an event kit with exclusive resources that will help you advocate for children around the world.
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