FOR EVERY CHILD
A bold new vision for such a time as this!
Trafficking of children—forcing them into labor or commercial sex—is essentially trading in their lives, dignity, and innocence. In Bangladesh, trafficking is a serious problem. Extreme poverty, coupled with a demand for cheap labor, puts children at great risk. World Vision is confronting the issue with efforts to prevent exploitation and improve care for those who have been harmed.
Through the Bangladesh Child Protection Program, World Vision will work
to reduce the vulnerability of children to sex and labor trafficking, help communities prevent trafficking,
and provide critical services to children who have been abused. Th is includes supporting organizations that
rescue children from exploitative situations and ensuring counseling for children and their families. We will
help victims of trafficking receive medical care, legal services, and vocational training. We also will assist in
reintegrating victims into family and community life.
Thousands of children and youth will benefit from enhanced child-friendly centers, which help exploited
children regain normalcy in their lives and protect those at risk of trafficking.
Our systems strategies include ensuring that aftercare shelters have appropriate procedures in place for
assessing and caring for children and integrating them into society. We will seek adequate management
of legal and other processes in abuse cases. World Vision also will advocate for improved policies for
combating trafficking and conduct campaigns to raise community awareness. Th is will include empowering
members of children’s groups to become a voice for themselves and their peers.
Over five years, with funding of slightly more than $7.1 million, we will provide restoration and protection
services to more than 470,000 beneficiaries including more than 55,000 children in the Khulna region
of southwestern Bangladesh. Prevention work will benefit all those living in the 12 targeted World Vision
development areas for a total of more than 1.5 million people. We invite you to join us in tackling the issue
of trafficking and its impact on children in Bangladesh.
The need in Zambia- According to the United Nations, 68 percent of Zambia’s population lives below the poverty line, and 50 percent is unemployed. A lack of water, sanitation, and proper health care has taken a severe toll on Zambia’s families. The mortality rate for children younger than 5 is 182 per 1,000 live births and has not improved since 1970. Malaria remains the biggest killer of children younger than 5 and poses a major health problem for the rest of the population. In recent years, life expectancy in Zambia has markedly decreased among adults—down to just 40.5 years—largely due to the AIDS pandemic. More than 1.1 million Zambians are living with the disease, and according to the United Nations, some 710,000 boys and girls have been orphaned (lost one or both parents) due to this devastating illness.World Vision’s response
The new Southern Africa Water Initiative (SAWI), will launch in December
2008, beginning with ZWASH in Zambia. SAWI will be modeled after
World Vision’s successful West Africa Water Initiative. SAWI will provide
safe water, basic sanitation, and hygiene education to more than 500,000
people in the Southern African countries of Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique,
and Lesotho, from 2008 to 2016. Children and families will experience
improved health and quality of life as they gain access to safe water and
hygienic sanitation.
Project goal and objectives ZWASH employs an integrated, holistic strategy with a focus on safe water as the entry point for long-term development in Zambia. Th e project’s
goal is to help improve the overall health and socioeconomic well-being of
targeted beneficiaries.
Key objectives include:
* Increase the level of access to sustainable, safe water and environmental sanitation services among poor and vulnerable
populations
* Reduce the prevalence of waterborne and water-related diseases,
including trachoma and diarrheal illnesses
* Ensure ecologically and financially sustainable management of
water quantity and quality
*Foster a new model of partnership and institutional synergy to
ensure technical excellence, programmatic innovation, and long-term
sustainability in water management that can be replicated elsewhere
How you can help
Our Chapter has a commitment of $15,000 to the ZWASH Project for 2010. You can donate online from our website! Just click the link to the right "Donate Online" Thank you for your support and help!
Below is a video showing the need for clean water in Zambia!!
Water - a dirty reality for 1.1 Billion people.
World Vision Appalachia Project
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| Girls camp put on by Charlotte NC Chapter |
Our Chapter has joined alongside other chapters and churches to support the World Vision Appalachia Project. This project has many programs such as KidReach, Youth Empowerment Program(YEP), and Family Initiative.
Statistics and Facts About Poverty in Appalachia
Educational aspirations of rural youth lag behind those of their non-rural counterparts. Data reveals that rural students do not aspire to post-secondary educational opportunities as frequently as urban and suburban students do. 1 Rural adults are less likely to have a college degree than urban residents, and the quality of rural educational systems is often sub-standard, especially in low-wealth counties. Both limit the ability of rural workers to secure good jobs, or to attract and create quality jobs in rural places.
Rural areas generally lack adequate infrastructure, from child care facilities, to public transportation, to information technology. This also poses barriers to work and to industries locating in rural areas.
Rural residents often have restricted job opportunites because they must rely on limited industries located near their homes. As a result, jobs are hard to find, and job advancement is more difficult.
Discrimination on the basis of race, social class, or gender persists in some rural areas, blocking opportunities for genuine social and economic advancement for all people in rural America. 2
1 Source of fact: Xu, Jianzhong, & Lyn Corno. (2006, March 10). Gender, Family Help and Homework Management Reported by Rural Middle School Students. Journal in Rural Education. 2 Source of fact: Rural Realities, Vol 1, Iss 1, published by the Rural Sociological Society.