operationblessing:

Africa

Volunteers in West Africa organize a mosquito net distribution, ensuring each family with young children receives a bed net that will help protect them from malaria and other illnesses spread by mosquitoes.

In honor of International Volunteer Day, will you take a moment to pray for volunteers who give of their time to help others?

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doctorswithoutborders:

Donate your profile for ONE DAY to help rewrite the story of malnutrition.

Your donation will help Doctors Without Borders draw attention to the crisis of childhood malnutrition that affects 195 million children around the world.

Donating your profile lets the “Starved for Attention” app post up to three messages on your Facebook or Twitter profile over the course of 24 hours. You will also have the option of changing your profile picture to add the “rewrite the story” message.

joshgroves:

Asia Bibi, a wife and mother, used these words to defend her faith against mocking co-workers who tried to make her convert to Islam. She was later convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death.

In Pakistan, more than 150,000 Christians have signed a petition demanding justice for persecution victims, including Asia Bibi. Now you can join with The Voice of the Martyrs and our Pakistani brothers and sisters in a call for mercy. We hope to gather 1 million signatures on behalf of our sister Asia, who now sits in prison awaiting the Lahore High Court’s ruling on her appeal.

Invite your friends to visit www.CallForMercy.com and add their names to the petition as well. VOM will deliver the petition, along with the list of signers, to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington DC.

Learn more about Asia Bibi’s story.

jcluforever:

Hey girlies have a Twitter?

Please take a minute to help Compassion International win a contest that will give them access to the eyes and ears of half a million people. Their Water for Life filtration systems will bring clean water to poor children all over the world.

Please vote here—> http://twakeover.water.org/t/compassion/

Reblog and Vote please

spiritualinspiration:

Famine in the Horn of Africa: How to help

A list of charitable organizations fighting famine and drought in the Horn of Africa

More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa require food assistance due to the region’s worst drought in half a century, the United Nations says.

The UN says that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia, southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somali population — 3.7 million people — are now in crisis, of whom an estimated 2.8 million people are in the south.

But parts of Kenya and Ethiopia are also in crisis.

Here are some key organizations that are providing aid in the region.

• UNICEF
  UNICEF, the UN’s children’s organization, and its partners need more money to aid children in the Horn of Africa in the coming months. Immediate measures include child immunization campaigns and water and sanitation services to ward off disease.
  
  Text FOOD to UNICEF (864233) to donate $10, enough to feed a child for 10 days or provide 321 sachets of nutrient powder to boost infant survival and development, the aid group says.
  
  
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  Red Cross has launched the East Africa Drought Appeal 2011 to provide emergency relief, including food, water and health assistance.
  
  Make donations online at www.redcross.org.au or by calling 1-800-811-700.
  
  
• Doctors Without Borders
  In Dadaab, Kenya, Doctors Without Borders says it is treating more than 2,400 children in its ambulatory therapeutic feeding program and 130 children in its inpatient therapeutic feeding center. An additional 5,047 children with moderate acute malnutrition are enrolled in a supplementary feeding program. There are now around 10,000 people in the organization’s feeding program in the Dadaab camp.  
  
  Donate here or by calling 1-888-392-0392.
  
  
• Save the Children
  Save the Children has launched an effort in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia to feed underweight children, provide medical treatment and get clean water to remote communities. Click here for ways to give.
  
  
• The World Food Programme
  The World Food Programme said it is reaching 1.5 million people in Somalia now, and is scaling up to reach 2.2 million more in the previously inaccessible south of the country. It says airlifts to Mogadishu will start within a few days to bring in special nutritious foods for malnourished children.
  
  Donate $10 by texting the word AID to 27722 or make a donation online
  
  
• World Vision
  World Vision says it has been fighting hunger in the Horn of Africa for years and will continue to  provide food, clean water, agricultural support, health care and other vital assistance to children and families. Donate online.
  
  
• The International Rescue Committee
  In drought-wracked central Somalia, the International Rescue Committee is giving cash and other assistance to households whose livestock, pastures and farmland have been destroyed. In Kenya’s refugee camps, the organization says, it is providing medical screenings and referrals for new arrivals at reception centers where they also receive food and basic supplies. Donate online.
  
  
• Oxfam International
  Oxfam said it is responding to the crisis by providing water, sanitation services, food and cash. The aim is to reach at least 3 million people, including 700,000 in Ethiopia, 1.3 million in Kenya, and 500,000 in Somalia. Donate online.
  
  
• AmeriCares
  AmeriCares said it is preparing to send medical aid to areas of East Africa experiencing one of the worst droughts in decades. The organization has also established an Africa Disaster Relief Fund to help direct critical resources to the region. Donate online.
  
  
• Action Against Hunger
  The organization said it’s providing support for displaced and at-risk populations, treating acute malnutrition, and ensuring emergency access to clean water, improved sanitation, and hygiene programs for thousands of children and adults. Donate online or call 877-777-1420.
  
  
• ActionAid
  ActionAid said it has already reached more than 200,000 people with emergency food supplies, water and livelihood support. In the next few months, the organization aims to reach an additional 120,000 people with much-need food and water. Donate online.
  
  
• Adventist Development and Relief Agency
  According to the organization, the aid it’s providing includes emergency water trucking, distribution of shelter materials, repair and construction of boreholes, distribution of food rations, and in Kenya special rations to 300 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. Donate online.

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hazeleyes257:

I found a new non-profit organization, a Christian ministry, called World Relief, which helps the vulnerable globally and fights to see the end of every devastating reality from hunger to human trafficking to gender-based violence to displacement of refugees.

The volunteer opportunites and internships are domestic and abroad and there are so many to choose from. I cannot travel to volunteer right now, but maybe in the future. I would LOVE to. And I know many who would too. In all honesty, it’s not easy though. Giving of time, money and energy, and pushing wants and comforts aside. But can you imagine how rewarding? To work and give directly? And even if you can’t, they really need prayer.

For right now, I’m going to donate and make sure those around me are made aware, are educated. That everyone knows more and more each day about the realities of the vulnerable. Don’t get overwhelmed by the vast amounts of space and distance between yourself and those in need. Don’t get overwhelmed by statistics. And don’t let them stop you from learning and doing and giving. Even a little.

“If you can’t feed 100 people, just feed one.”

Mother Teresa

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