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BUILD A BETTER
TOMORROW WITH GIFTS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
This is your world: you have the power to change it
SHARE OUR VISION There are so many wonderful ways to build a better world for children and families. By partnering with us on one of the projects inside these pages — and choosing one you’re passionate about — you demonstrate your commitment to ease human suffering. Poverty is an enormously complex problem, but you can help address its root causes in a holistic way: through special programs that reach out to children in crisis, and through programs in economic development, education, health and nutrition, clean water and sanitation, and HIV and AIDS prevention. Recovery from the global financial crisis has been slow — even non-existent for some of the world’s most vulnerable communities — so now more than ever, the need is immense. It’s all about fostering lasting change so that children and families can envision a more hopeful future.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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Please don’t hesitate. It’s always the right time to act. Choose a project that speaks to your heart and help make it happen. Learn more at www.changingtheirworld.com. Vulnerable children and families need your support. To change their world today, please contact your World Vision Development Advisor, or call 1 800-387-7722. 2
WHERE WORLD VISION WORKS Countries with projects funded by Canadian donors *
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Af r i c a Angola* Burundi* Chad* Democratic Republic of the Congo* Ethiopia* Ghana* Kenya* Lesotho* Malawi* Mali* Mauritania* Mozambique* Niger* Rwanda* Senegal* Sierra Leone* Somalia* South Africa* Sudan* Swaziland* Tanzania* Uganda* Zambia* Zimbabwe*
A si a Afghanistan* Bangladesh* Cambodia* China* East Timor* India* Indonesia* Japan Laos* Malaysia Mongolia* Myanmar* Nepal* North Korea* Pakistan* Philippines* Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka* Taiwan* Thailand* Vietnam O c e ani a Australia New Zealand Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Vanuatu
HOW WE WORK World Vision partners with communities to help build better lives for children, and provides hope and help to millions of people in nearly 100 countries. Where poverty and injustice break the spirit of families and communities, we take a holistic approach to healing and sustainable development. We focus especially on children’s well-being. With programs that are innovative, sustainable, and responsive to each particular community, we help parents provide what we all want for our children: health care, food, education, and clean water. Along with families and communities, we also partner with other non-governmental organizations, community and faith-based organizations, and all levels of government — usually for 10 to 15 years — to foster lasting change. Today, World Vision Canada supports 242 Area Development Programs, each designed to empower people to carry on with their own development. In 2010, we celebrated a big milestone, with the 500,000th child being sponsored. Yet there is still so much to do. Right now, for example, vulnerable communities are still reeling from the effects of the global financial crisis. They are struggling to feed their families as the cost of food continues to skyrocket. And the aftermath of enormous natural disasters in places like Haiti and Pakistan creates even more challenges. You can help us change their world. Learn more at www.changingtheirworld.com. 4
C HI L D RE N I N C RI S I S
Children in Crisis RESTORING HOPE IN CHILDHOOD PROTECTING THOSE AT RISK
FIGHTING TRADITION: ONE GIRL’S STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPe
Children are often the most vulnerable people in any society, and it is a tragic reality that so many of them fall through the cracks. Each day, millions suffer in deep poverty, robbed of their childhood and denied their basic rights. They are particularly vulnerable to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Female genital mutilation, early marriage, and child trafficking are widespread, and many children are forced to labour in horrible conditions. Others are conscripted to fighting forces. Millions more do not have access to clean drinking water, essential medicines, nutritious food, and education.
Salina is one of the fortunate ones, but she nearly fell victim to a harmful traditional practice that would almost certainly have put an end to her education. Every year, about two million young girls like Salina are forced to endure female genital mutilation, a coming-of-age ritual practised in Kenya and many other African countries.
World Vision exists because of children like Salina (story, right). Please reach out to help change the world they live in.
Salina was 15 when her uncle demanded she have the procedure done. “My uncle told me that no man would respect me or marry me if I [remained] uncircumcised,” Salina recalled. [He said:] ‘This is our culture, so who are you to go against it?’” Aside from the negative physical effects — profuse loss of blood, risk of fistulas, HIV infection, complications during childbirth, and even the risk of death — girls like Salina risk missing out on school and the chance to shape their future. They are expected to marry early and have babies before their own bodies have matured. But Salina had just attended a World Vision training session on alternative rites of passage for girls, and learned of her right to an education and the right to say no to female genital mutilation. She defied her uncle and mother and escaped. Now, with World Vision’s support, she is back at school and living in a dormitory. “We feel safe here and we have ample time to study,” she said. Indeed, Salina’s mother has since expressed remorse over what happened and is happy her daughter will have a better future. Ending the practice of female genital mutilation is not easy, especially as it is linked to marriage suitability, but education for girls and their communities is critical as World Vision works to show that there are alternatives.
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GH A N A
CAMBODIA
CAMBODIA
INDIA
PA K I S TA N
Give Life to Girls
New Hope for People with Disabilities
Trauma Recovery Centre
Protecting Boys from Sex Abuse
Rights on the Street
Drop-In Centre
Help spread awareness across 27 communities about the harmful consequences of Female Genital Mutilation — a widespread traditional practice that seriously impacts the human rights, health, and well-being of girls and women. Work with faith-based groups, government, traditional leaders, media, children, families, school communities, and health workers to promote behaviour change.
Empower people with disabilities to generate income and provide for themselves through advocacy, skills training, access to markets, and education. Improve community awareness and demonstrate how special programs have a huge impact on daily life for people with disabilities and their families.
Help restore dignity and good health to trafficked and sexually exploited girls at a trauma recovery centre by providing essentials such as food, clothing, shelter, education, health care, psychosocial counselling, and skills training. Raise awareness, provide hope and opportunity, and help girls transition back to life in their communities and with their families.
Spread awareness about child protection and child rights in order to help reduce the incidence of sexual abuse of boys. Provide direct support for about 50 boys each year for five years. Urge communities to act against sexual abuse as well as to protect victimized boys from suffering at the hand of abusers again.
Help restore childhood for about 5,000 Delhi street and working children by advocating against child labour and trafficking. Provide education, proper nutrition, health care, and skills training. Help ensure the UN-backed rights of the child are met: survival, development, protection, and participation.
Funding Opportunity: $207,000
Funding Opportunity: $200,000
Help reduce the worst and hazardous forms of child labour by providing 800 working children with psychosocial support, recreational activities, life skills, health and hygiene training, non-formal education, and vocational training at the Manzil Drop-In Centre. Empower parents, siblings, and the wider community with information on child rights and life skills.
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Funding Opportunity: $220,000 6
E C O N O MI C D E V E L O P M E N T
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HELP END THE CYCLE OF POVERTY MICROFINANCE A PROVEN WINNER
“i WILL NEVER GROW TIRED OF SAYING THANK YOU”
As the economic engine that drives development work forward, microfinance is a proven, effective way to fight poverty and help families build on the foundation laid by other World Vision programs. When small businesses flourish, parents can send their children to school and pay for essentials such as health care.
When her husband starting using illicit drugs, Maria, a Mexican mother of three, almost lost it all: family, marriage, business, and health. “Who knows where I would be without the loan [from World Vision],” Maria says. “I think I would have died from worrying.”
Maria (story, right) turned her family’s life around with hard work, commitment, small loans, and training. Millions more are waiting for that same chance. The loans you help us provide are very successful, with a 96.7% repayment rate. When loans are repaid, the funds are used to help others achieve self-reliance. This means your gift multiplies many times over, helping more people generate income, create jobs, and overcome poverty for good.
Maria was already living in deep poverty when her husband’s drug problem began. She was a housekeeper in Tijuana, but never earned enough to feed her family. “It was very hard for me. My kids didn’t even have bread to eat every day,” she recalls tearily. Today, however, Maria’s family has made a fresh start. Maria and several other people in her community had heard about a World Vision loan program. They, too, wanted to improve their quality of life and decided to form their own loan group. With an initial $500 loan, Maria was able to start her own business selling clothing. “I feel good,” she says, “because now I can take care of my children and my house. Before, I couldn’t.” Owning her own business means Maria can make a difference in other people’s lives too. “I try to find a way to help with the little I have. Because I know what it is like to be in need,” she says. Today, after more than two years in the microcredit group, Maria has a thriving business, a united family, her husband has recovered, and she is able to earn more than three times what she used to earn. “God put [the loan group] in my path and thanks to God and to [World Vision] my business has grown, little by little. I will never grow tired of saying thank you.”
E CO N O M I C D E V E LO P M E N T FAC T S
RWA N DA
ETHIOPIA
BR A ZIL
G UAT E M A L A
Path of Hope
Microfinance in Ethiopia
Jobs for Urban Youth
Microfinance in Guatemala
Provide hope and tangible help in the HIV-affected community of Gashora. Give the local economy a boost and help parents care for their children through small livestock-raising projects. Provide equipment for beekeeping, tailoring, maize processing, and irrigation, and support mothers to buy, sell, and store their products.
Extend the reach of microfinance programs and help restore dignity and self-sufficiency to families who will be better able to care for their children and whose small-business successes will boost the economy. Provide loans as small as $100 and business training to up to 11,000 rural clients.
Help youth in Fortaleza — where widespread poverty, violence, and unemployment have left so many people without hope — to finish school and acquire basic language, IT, and math skills. Support local companies to create job opportunities for youth, and provide access to credit and training to launch small businesses.
Support the entrepreneurial poor who cannot access credit through traditional banks — and who cannot break free of poverty — without the resources that every determined entrepreneur needs to succeed. Help hard workers liberate their families from poverty with small loans, business training, and access to other financial services.
Funding Opportunity: $217,000
Funding Opportunity: $150,000
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Funding Opportunity: $220,000
World Vision’s development programs help lay the foundation for sustainability. Financial programs like microenterprise then give families what they need to build on that foundation, escape poverty, provide for their children, and create jobs. When hardworking entrepreneurs have access to loans and job-skills training, the ripple effect in their communities is powerful. In the second quarter of fiscal 2011, World Vision’s microfinance institutions had:
• Impacted more than 1.62 million children’s lives • Created or sustained 764,000 jobs DID YOU KNOW? • One in five people worldwide survives on less than $1.25 a day • Only 3% of the need for microfinance is being met • 500 million people could potentially benefit from microfinance
• 640,000 active borrowers
• Since 1993, World Vision has disbursed 3.5 million loans of more than $1.8 billion
• An average loan size of $671
Learn more at:
• 68% female clients
www.changingtheirworld.com
• $349 million in loans
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educatio n
education CHANGING THEIR TOMORROWS education a beacon of hope
LITTLE GIRL WHO LOVES TO LEARN CAN now STAY IN SCHOOL
Education is a huge part of holistic development — and ending global poverty and injustice begins in the classroom. For girls, in particular, education means opportunity. Educated girls are more likely to marry later, have smaller families, and earn more income. Education gives both girls and boys the essential skills they need to escape a life of poverty, and the confidence they need to make healthy choices.
In this small, isolated village in northwest Romania, everyday life for Paula, 8, and her family is a big challenge. Both Paula’s parents are unemployed, and it’s tough to pay for schooling, let alone to put food on the table.Yet they yearn for a different life for their little girl and her siblings — and they know that education is the way forward.
Children who are motivated to succeed are more likely to take their place in society eager to make their world a better place. And children like Paula (story, right) whose basic needs are being met are much better able to envision a positive future. Your support helps us heal communities and provide opportunities.
“They must go to school. We can’t let them [be] without school,” says Paula’s mother, Emilia. She hopes that through education, her children will escape chronic poverty and eventually live in a community where jobs are available. Paula loves to learn. But when financial constraints forced the government to close her school in late 2010, the only option was a 10-km commute to another school. Transportation became yet another challenge. Fortunately, World Vision donors were able to intervene. Paula is one of 45 children in the Ticu area to receive support from World Vision to continue their schooling. They have received clothing, shoes, school supplies, and, most importantly, transportation to reach the new school. “We really didn’t have the money to buy our children clothes and shoes,” says Emilia. “You helped us when we were in great need.” “Families from this area live in total poverty,” adds school official Felician Graur. “Very often children take turns in going to school, because there is only one pair of shoes for all of them. World Vision’s intervention solves an important issue for the students and parents. Now I am optimistic about their presence in school.”
E D U C AT I O N FAC T S •N early a sixth of the world’s population (people older than 15) lack basic literacy skills
N O RT H S U DA N
S E N EG A L
MALI
M E X I CO
Education for All
Right to Learn for Little Ones
Building, Learning, Growing
Education for Life
Help make education a priority in South Darfur, where nearly half of all children are not in school. Help equip schools and teachers to provide quality education. Enable girls to overcome gender discrimination and avoid early marriage and harmful traditional practices to ensure they receive the same opportunities as boys. Provide uniforms and learning materials.
Help fulfill the need for early childhood education by rehabilitating two existing pre-schools where there is a teacher and/or a community volunteer already in place. Improve the learning environment by helping provide essential furniture and supplies.
Improve education in the Jigiya community, where most of the population is illiterate. Empower parents to understand the value of education for their children’s future. Work to improve enrolment, particularly for girls. Provide teacher training and skills training for out-of-school youth. Build and equip two schools.
Meet with parents, school committees, local leaders, children, and teachers to improve the quality of education in the Xchanel Amtel community. Train school committees in resource management and grant applications. Refurbish classrooms, sport fields, washrooms, and provide teaching materials.
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Funding Opportunity: $130,200
Funding Opportunity: $347,200
Funding Opportunity: $140,000
• About 72 million primary school-age children are not enrolled in school • An estimated 70% of the world’s out-of-school children live in subSaharan Africa and west Asia • Barriers to education include conflict and emergencies, living in remote areas, the effects of HIV and AIDS, child labour, extreme poverty, and discrimination • Millennium Development Goal 2 is to ensure that by 2015, all children have access to and complete
primary education that is free, compulsory and of good quality • Two thirds of the 774 million illiterate adults worldwide are women — the same proportion for the past 20 years and across most regions • Although gaps between girls’ and boys’ primary-school enrolment have closed in most countries, gender parity is still a distant goal for some • By age 18, girls have received an average of 4.4 years less education than boys Learn more at:
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H O L I S TI C C O MMU N I TI E S
HOLISTIC COMMUNITIES FOR EVERY PART OF A CHILD’S LIFE HEALING THE HOLISTIC WAY
HOPE AND TANGIBLE HELP FOR THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED
By investing in holistic development, you are investing in the greatest asset any community has: its children.
Building holistic communities is all about empowerment and sustainability. In a place like South Darfur — where the burden of war lingers — the holistic approach is helping people heal.
Your support helps us address the root causes of poverty with programs in health care, water and sanitation, education, economic development, and agriculture.
Thousands still languish in Sudan’s camps for internally displaced people. By distributing seeds to about 3,000 people in four of these camps, we are helping them reclaim their lives and livelihoods, and building hope for the future. In addition to the seeds, people are also receiving hoes, weeders, ploughs, and other necessary tools.
You also help us respond to disasters and build community resilience where nature’s extremes and environmental disasters such as drought and flood have made life even more difficult for poor families.
A lull in violence has allowed some people to take the seeds with them as they return to their villages and the farms they had fled. For many others, returning home is by no means certain. Fatima Ahmed is among them.
Your partnership helps us heal families like Fatima’s (story, right) in myriad ways, and helps provide the opportunities children so desperately need.
“These seeds have come at the right time because the rainy season has started,” Fatima says, adding that she will plant the seeds on a piece of land adjacent to the camp because she isn’t ready to return to her village. “I am looking forward to a good harvest. I hope to sell some crops to raise money to educate my children.” This year alone, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Vision has provided high-quality crop and vegetable seeds — groundnuts, millet, and sorghum, and vegetables such as tomatoes, watermelon, and cucumber — to 10,000 needy people across South Darfur. We also support livestock production, poultry farming and other agricultural activities.
AC T I NG O N I M P U L S E
HAITI
SUDAN
B A NG L A D E SH
Centre of Hope
Community Essentials
Protection from Wild Elephants
Contribute to the five-year, Centre of Hope project — in Haiti’s Central Plateau region — and provide literacy and teacher training, vocational skills, technology classes, business development, and leadership training to children and families whose lives were torn apart by the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
Thanks to a generous contribution from the Canadian government, your gift will double in value to help transform communities. Help provide essential services such as medical supplies for health clinics, education for girls, wells and maintenance training, and a school feeding program. Empower people to advocate their government for resources they need to restore their communities.
Funding Opportunity: $320,000
Funding Opportunity: $300,000
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Equip people with lifesaving resources in Jhinaigati, a farming region where rampaging elephants frequently destroy crops, homes, and gardens. Even lives have been lost. Help improve community resilience and restore the livelihoods of thousands of people who rely on the land to earn a living. Funding Opportunity: $65,000
Haiti, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Zambia
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Mobile Aid Help extend the reach of a pioneering mobile and information-technology solution designed by World Vision to help ensure humanitarian aid is delivered more efficiently and with greater accountability. This technology connects humanitarian business processes from start to finish, warehouse to field, and donor to beneficiary.
Spread community awareness to fight widespread rape and other forms of sexual violence. Help survivors stay strong by providing medical, legal, and psychosocial care. Empower 12 local women’s networks to contribute to the local economy through small loans, business training, and income-generating projects.
Funding Opportunity: $130,000
Funding Opportunity: $250,000
Women Stand Up Together
As adults, we sometimes fail to act because we see all the complexities. A simple generous act frequently cuts right to the heart of the matter. ” — Dave Toycen, President, World Vision Canada
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H E ALT H A N D NU TRI TI ON
HEALTH AND NUTRITION A HEALTHY FOUNDATION FOR LIFE HELPING FAMILIES HELP THEMSELVES
life-giving nutrition programs take bite out of malnutrition
It is every parent’s dream to watch their children grow strong and become happy, successful adults — yet every year almost 8.8 million children younger than 5 die, 60% of them from malnutrition and hunger-related diseases.
In her remote village in northern Mozambique, baby Betinha almost died from severe malnutrition. Even the doctor who diagnosed her was amazed that she recovered.
Debilitating hunger is a daily reality all over the developing world. War, drought, and poverty make it difficult for families to provide the nutritious food children need. Parents weakened by hunger cannot work or provide for their families. And in recent years, a massive rise in food prices has left people even more desperate. With your support, families like Betinha’s (story, right) can help themselves with improved improve farming techniques, seeds, tools, and nutrition training.
When Betinha’s mother died two months after her birth, Betinha was left in the care of her grandmother. Marieta, 65, did everything she could to keep her granddaughter healthy, but she had little understanding of proper nutrition for babies. “I did not know how to prepare (a) right meal for my little Betinha,” Marieta says sadly. “I used to feed her with the same meal as we adults had. She started to get thin, weak, and she didn’t want to eat. I did not know what was wrong with her. For a while I thought she had a fever and I was afraid for her life.” After seeing a doctor, Betinha was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. But with help from generous World Vision supporters, her condition changed dramatically. She received milk, sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, peanuts, and other foods. Just as important, her grandmother received nutritional education. “When I saw her first brought to me by her grandmother, I could not believe she would survive,” Dr. Genoveva Madivádua says. “It’s a miracle. Now she is strong and full of life.” “Almost every day a World Vision health assistant was at my home to teach me how to prepare the meals for my granddaughter,” Marieta adds. “Betinha started to get better miraculously. She got weight and life like a new person.”
h ealt h FAC T S • Every day, 22,000 children younger than 5 die from preventable causes — which means that every year, 8 million children are not reaching their fifth birthday
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TA N Z A N I A
BANGLADESH
UGANDA
HAITI
Survive Five
Survive Five
Cradle of Hope
Food Security and Education
Grace Children’s Hospital
Strengthen communities’ ability to address malnutrition and combat the other leading causes of death for children younger than 5 through our ‘7-11’ strategy. Provide 7 health interventions for moms and 11 for children so that children are well nourished, protected from infection and disease, and have access to essential health services.
Empower communities to fight the leading causes of death for children younger than 5 through our ‘7-11’ strategy. Provide 7 health interventions for moms and 11 for children so that children can be well nourished, protected from infection and disease, and have access to the services they need to get and stay healthy beyond their fifth birthday.
Promote breastfeeding to help fight malnutrition. Train 500 health workers and 250 community leaders, and teach 24,000 mothers about proper feeding practices for children younger than 2. Support families to grow vegetables and raise poultry to supplement their children’s diets so that they grow strong and healthy.
Help boost food security, nutrition, and income, and improve the quality of education for hundreds of families still reeling the effects of Uganda’s 20-year civil conflict. Provide tangible help and hope that will help mend the social fabric of communities, restore livelihoods, and help families escape severe poverty.
Partner with the National Hockey League Players’ Association to help rebuild the earthquake-ravaged Grace Children’s Hospital. Re-establish vital prevention and care services that specifically target the needs of vulnerable children and families. Help restore hope, dignity, and good health to the people of Haiti.
Funding Opportunity: $260,000
Funding Opportunity: $260,000
Funding Opportunity: $170,000
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Funding Opportunity: $300,000
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• Half of all global child deaths occur in India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and China • Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of child deaths each year • Children in developing nations are 10 times more likely to die of preventable diseases than those in developed countries Learn more at:
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WATE R A N D SA NI TATI O N
WATER AND SANITATION THE GIFT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING the power of clean water
WATER PROJECTS BRING HOPE AND GOOD HEALTH
More than one in six people worldwide — 894 million — do not have access to the daily minimum 20-50 litres of water as recommended by the United Nations. Everyone hurts when clean water is scarce, but children are the most affected.
During the first years of her life, Claudia, 5, suffered constant diarrhea and stomach pain, leaving her unable to play and laugh like other children. Her mother, Margarita, used to take her to the health centre to be treated for dehydration. By the time Claudia was three, she had been already admitted twice to hospital because of diarrhea. It was a grave concern — yet the family could not afford medical care.
The good news is that the world is now on track to meet the water portion of its Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water. The bad news is that the world has fallen dangerously behind in basic sanitation. With your support, our work — drilling wells, teaching water management and safe hygiene, and building irrigation systems and latrines — can continue to build a healthy foundation for families like Claudia’s (story, right).
“Most of the time she had a stomach ache, and every time I did her laboratory analysis, [Claudia] turned out to have parasites,” Margarita explains. Fortunately, a partnership between the local people and World Vision has since helped bring clean water to Claudia’s community. But for many years, the daily task of collecting water was very difficult, and the health of children suffered. Like her six sisters, Claudia used to drink water from old and dirty pipes. The only faucet was about 15 minutes away from their home. “My daughters and I had to go several times a day [to gather water] because my husband is always working,” Margarita explains. “The bucket was very heavy. People fought for water.” When World Vision talked about building an aqueduct, Margarita saw hope. “I believed what they said on that day. They asked the community to contribute by helping [build] the aqueduct and we were among the families who were part of it.” Three years later, this family has clean water at home. “The girls are very happy and Claudia has not caught parasites again,” Margarita says.
WAT E R A N D S A N I TAT I O N FAC T S Water is foundational to life, yet nearly 1 billion people don’t have access to clean water. When that happens, all aspects of life are affected.
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MAURI TA N I A
ME XI CO
Water and Sanitation
Water for Life
Clean Water for Communities
Help reduce the high rate of preventable deaths in the conflict-affected Democratic Republic of the Congo. Provide improved access to clean water proper hygiene practices for 75,000 people. Improve overall health for 7,500 people through access to proper sanitation, including handwashing stations at schools.
Help transform daily life for about 12,000 people by establishing two sources of clean, safe water, and train and equip committees to manage both. Organize awareness campaigns to help children and families understand the proper use of the facilities.
Build 100 cisterns to improve access to clean, safe water in the communities of Xchanel Amtel, where the lack of water and water storage is a major concern, especially in the dry season. Train families to manage water resources to ensure sustainability and improved health.
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Funding Opportunity: $239,550
Funding Opportunity: $140,000
• Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation — that’s 1.5 million preventable deaths each year • The United Nations suggests that each person needs 20-50 litres of safe freshwater a day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning • More than one in six people worldwide — 894 million — don’t have access to this amount • Diarrhea is the leading cause of illness and death, and 88% of these
deaths are due to a lack of access to clean water and proper hygiene and sanitation • 2.5 billion people, including almost 1 billion children, live without even basic sanitation • The world is roughly on course to reach the Millennium Development Goal targets for water supply (to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without safe drinking water and sanitation) but is expected to fall short by a half billion people in sanitation • W en a community gains access to clean water, child mortality halves Learn more at:
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HIV and AIDS EASING THE BURDEN ON CHILDREN
PROTECTING A GENERATION
EMPOWERED TEEN FIGHTS TO KEEP HER PEERS SAFE FROM hiv
The global AIDS epidemic has been called the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time, yet millions of people have no access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment — and many have no knowledge of how HIV spreads. Fuelled by poverty, AIDS is wiping out a generation of parents who should be able to provide for their children.
Mba, 16, is passionate about fighting AIDS.
With the help of peer educators like Mba (story, right) and donors like you, World Vision is working to save a generation of children from HIV infection, and creating a culture of care for orphans and people living with HIV and AIDS.
“Can you imagine that a village can disappear just because of ignorance?” she asks from her home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Most of the people do not believe that HIV and AIDS exists. They still believe that it is linked to witchcraft.”
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFT we are deeply grateful
In 2006, Mba attended a training session funded by World Vision. She learned how HIV is transmitted and how people can protect themselves. “I was shocked to learn that HIV and AIDS does not have any medicine,” she recalls. Mba became determined to help protect and educate young people. These days, she is a peer educator, and thankful for World Vision’s support. Recently she had a chance to share her knowledge with a group of 50 children — the first time most had even heard about the disease. “I gathered 50 children, aged from 6 to 11, under a tree,” Mba recalls. “My lesson was very simple. In this world, there are many diseases: malaria, measles, diarrhea, mumps. When you go to see the traditional healers or nurses, you will get the medicines and be cured. However, there is another disease called HIV/AIDS that does not have any medicine. If you have this disease, you will suffer and will die. I know that cultural values, customs, and traditions are affecting us. But for HIV/AIDS, we need to fight together.”
Expenditures 2010
as a percentage of revenue 5.0% Administration
13.9% Fundraising
81.1% Programs
In fiscal 2010, 81.1% of World Vision Canada’s total revenue for its community development, emergency relief, and advocacy work supported programs that combat poverty and help children and communities in need.
ETHIOPIA
CAMBODIA
THAIL AND
Inclusion for All
Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Care for Vulnerable Children
Help ease the burden in a country that denies millions of people with disabilities the right to work or study, and where those struggles are compounded by HIV and AIDS and poverty. Help improve quality of life and access to health care for 4,500 people with HIV, as well as orphans and vulnerable children and adults with disabilities. Funding Opportunity: $200,000 17
Empower community care coalitions to care for 2,500 children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS. Help them to provide access to health care and education, protect children from exploitation, and empower foster families to provide for them.
Fight the spread of HIV and ease the burden of HIV and AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children in Phusang District. Empower a community care coalition to share HIV-prevention strategies, provide care, and advocate for those who need support. Foster networks of people living with HIV and AIDS, and encourage the use of community resources.
Funding Opportunity: $108,500
Funding Opportunity: $228,700
In cases where donations exceed what is needed or where local conditions prevent program implementation, World Vision Canada will redirect funds to similar activities to help needy people. World Vision Canada is incorporated in Mississauga, Ontario. For more information, or for a copy of our latest audited financial statements, please visit our website at www.worldvision.ca, or contact Janet Johnson, VP Church and Regional Engagement, at 1 World Drive, Mississauga, ON L5T 2Y4, or call toll-free 1 800-844-7993.
Our goal is to make the most of your gifts to help as many people as possible — and even in the midst of a slow recovery from the global financial crisis, Canadians are still managing to give. In fact, as a result of very generous donations to large-scale emergencies, our total revenue in 2010 increased by 10.9% — from nearly $375 million to more than $415 million. It’s your generosity and compassion that enable us to do what we do. Because of you, lives are being transformed. Because of you, the burden on poor families is easing. Your gift translates into real solutions, hope for the future, and gives communities the inspiration they need to work toward shared goals. But you give us more than your money.You give us your trust.You trust us to use your gift to help change the lives of children, and to maximize that gift for the greatest possible impact.You deserve to know how your gift is making a difference, and we promise to report back to you on the ways in which vulnerable communities are moving forward. We are accountable to you, as well as to the children, families, and communities we serve. We combine funds from child sponsorship, one-time donations, goods donated by corporations, and government grants to ensure your gifts are used wisely and efficiently. In fact, more than 81% of our revenue goes straight to programs that combat poverty and injustice. These pages outline many challenges, but with your help we can see a brighter future. We look forward to working together and letting you know about the good things we’re accomplishing. We want you to know that we can make a lasting impact in many ways. You are our valued partner as we work alongside children and their communities to help them escape poverty and enjoy abundant living. T hank you for opening your heart.Your compassion inspires us every day. World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. As followers of Jesus, we are motivated by God’s love to serve all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.
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