The REVOLUTION ’09 & World Vision Mission:
1,000 relief Backpacks to Aids Orphans
400 Child Sponsorships!
From more than 50 years, World Vision has worked with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. But the hard-won achievements of those 50 years of relief and development work have been jeopardized by HIV and AIDS.
A Generation in crisis
The AIDS pandemic is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. This fact does not imply that other developmental issues are unimportant; it simply recognizes that AIDS makes everything else worse.
AIDS endangers a family's health, a child's future, and a community's efforts to have a reliable food supply, clean water, education, and economic development. As parents get sick and can't work or grow food, children must leave school to care for their family's needs.
Children who leave school often are forced into livelihoods that put them at greater risk of HIV infection. As orphaned children struggle to survive, they spiral even deeper into poverty. This vicious circle hits girls particularly hard.
An effective response
World Vision's response to the disease dates back to at least 1990, when we began programs helping orphans and their caregivers in Uganda, providing care for Romanian children infected through unsterilized needles, and helping young women and girls escape prostitution in Thailand. Over the next decade, World Vision offices around the world addressed the issue on a national and community level, sometimes engaging the local church in its efforts to prevent AIDS and care for those affected by the pandemic.
The World Vision & REVOLUTION ’09 Partnership: In light of the enormity and severity of the pandemic in Africa: World Vision & REVOLUTON ’09 is responding to what could become a devastating epidemic. You can change yOUR world by assembling aids orphan relief backpacks on the “Field of Dreams” at the World Vision Tent.
For more info on how to sponsor a child click here:
http://www.worldvision.org
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