![Judith Alwang, 16, learns to sew at the Nyabondo Rehabilitation Center in Katito, Kenya. This center provides education and vocational training to children and youth with disabilities. Through a USAID-funded and World Vision-implemented program, Judith was one of the young people who received a wheelchair and learned about its maintenance. It's given her a freedom she never knew before. “Right now, I can do things that I was not able to do before, so my life has transformed,” Judith says. “I think that my future will be bright.” Summary: Judith Ajwang, 16, was brought to the Nyabondo Rehabilitation Center in Katito, Kenya by her aunt. Her parents died when she was young; she has no memory of them. “My auntie didn’t love me, and she didn’t welcome me,” says Judith. But her aunt did bring her to the center. Before, Judith had to crawl if she wanted to move anywhere. “I was not able to go anywhere. I was just there,” she says. Judith admired other children when they went by on their way to school, but school wasn’t an option for her. Things began to change when she arrived at the center six years ago and received sewing training. She began to be treated differently. “[The center] welcomed me very well, and I felt like I’d gotten my parents again,” Judith says. Then two years ago, she received a wheelchair through the as USAID-funded, World Vision-implemented program called ACCESS. That stands for Accelerating Core Competencies for Effective Wheelchair Service and Support. “That day, I was very happy when I received the wheelchair because I was now able to move very freely,” Judith says. She also received training on how to take care of her wheelchair and how to clean it. If something breaks, then she gets help repairing it. “Before I got the wheelchair and I was just at home, I was seeing no future,” Judith says. “I was just there, and there was nothing.” Now, when she finishes her studies, she’ll get](https://charity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/World-Vision-12-24-601x387-8c43504.jpg.webp)
Poverty compounds humankind’s worst dilemmas. Eradicating it would improve the quality of life for all – ensuring access to nutritious food, clean water, quality medical care, education, and more. It would boost economies and revitalize our environmental resources. In other words, eradicating poverty would help individuals and communities thrive.
-Agriculture can help reduce poverty, raise incomes, and improve food security for 80% of the world’s poor.
-About 450 million youth (7 out of 10) are economically disengaged, due to lack of adequate skills to succeed in the labor market.
-Almost 700 million people live in extreme poverty, on less than $2.15 per day.
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Even though it’s been nearly seven years since I moved to Seattle, as a southern transplant living in the Pacific Northwest I still struggle to adjust this time of year. With the return of gloomy skies, rainy weather and very short days, I find myself seeking out bits of inspiration and joy to get that warm, cozy feeling that helps get me in the autumn spirit! While hot soups, the beautiful colors of changing leaves and crisp morning walks certainly help, Global Impact thought we’d put together something even more effective in curing the winter blues. This month we are…
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- Title: Philippines Garden Project
- Charity: Rise Against Hunger
- Country: Philippines
- Photo Credit: Hannah Payne
- Title: Tet Kole ti Peyizan Ayisyen
- Charity: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
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- Photo Credit: Tet Kole ti Peyizan Ayisyen
- Title: Community Vision Board
- Charity: Tostan Inc
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- Photo Credit: Tostan/ Senegal
- Title: Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Iryna is visiting the IRC Child Protection activity called “Responsible Parenting”. During the session adults do various psychosocial activities that serve as the stress relief.
- Charity: International Rescue Committee
- Country: Ukraine
- Photo Credit: Tamara Kiptenko for the IRC
- Title: Pabré, Burkina Faso. Windyellé, aged 72, smiles at the camera, daba win hand in his maize field.
- Charity: International Rescue Committee
- Country: Africa
- Photo Credit: European Union (International Partnerships)
- Title: FFTP and Republic of China (Taiwan) Deliver Lifesaving Support to Guatemala
- Charity: Food For The Poor
- Country: Guatemala
- Photo Credit: Food For The Poor
- Charity: Heifer International
- Country: Uganda
- Photo Credit: Russell Powell
- Charity: Alight (formerly American Refugee Committee)
- Country: Rwanda
- Photo Credit: Nyabiheke & Mahama Camps/Rwanda/Alight
- Charity: Orbis International
- Photo Credit: Geoff Oliver Bugbee
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In collaboration with its local partners, IRC has set up the PARIC project in Burkina Faso and Mali, a programme to strengthen community resilience and inclusion. The project aims to support vulnerable populations in pastoral areas of Mali and Burkina Faso in the Mopti zone and the Soum province, which have been badly affected by armed conflict, and to meet their needs in terms of survival, health and nutrition. Through the Economic Recovery and Development component of the project, IRC is helping families from these regions, some of whom have been displaced to urban areas, to develop or restart their professional activities. In Pabré, a town close to the capital of Burkina Faso, Solidarités International, a partner under the supervision of IRC, provides cash assistance and a professional support service to families. This support enables displaced people, like Ramata, to access new opportunities, such as new agricultural land or access…
Food For The Poor (FFTP) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) are expanding their collaboration to fight hunger and improve access to health care in Guatemala through two new initiatives: rice shipments to feed vulnerable families and funding for a vital medical project serving rural communities. FFTP and the Republic of China (Taiwan) announced an agreement to distribute 990 metric tons of lifesaving rice to hungry families in Guatemala. The donation, equivalent to 55 tractor-trailer loads or shipping containers, will be delivered monthly beginning this month and continuing through December. The agreement was announced during a ceremony in El Tablón, Guatemala, led by Taiwan’s Ambassador to Guatemala, Vivia Chun-Fei Chang, and attended by officials from FFTP and its partners, Cáritas Arquidiocesana and the Order of Malta. Women from some of the families in Guatemala who will benefit from the rice donation attended the ceremony and expressed their gratitude. FFTP’s partnership…
In 1986, Navea stepped on a landmine in Cambodia and her leg had to be amputated. But with a prosthetic leg and rehabilitation care from Humanity & Inclusion, she learned to walk again. Today, she is married to Tirean, who is also a landmine survivor. Together, they earn their living with a small shop and laundry service. They recently became grandparents!
In close partnership with Sudanese diaspora groups, we raised the alarm about how the war in Sudan is creating a famine and a massive humanitarian crisis. We documented mass atrocities by the RSF paramilitaries – and focused global pressure on the United Arab Emirates to stop supplying arms to the RSF. We helped successfully push the U.S. government to make a formal determination that atrocities are occurring in Sudan, and to appoint a special envoy to lead diplomacy to end the war.
For 10 years, fear of the presence of landmines on his land prevented Justiniano, a farmer in the Nasa indigenous community in Colombia’s Inzá municipality, from expanding his coffee plantation. Humanity & Inclusion’s deminers spent five months inspecting and clearing explosives from Justiniano’s farm. Now, Justiniano can grow more coffee to support his family. HI’s mine action work in Colombia is supported by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement.
In the heart of Gurage, Ethiopia, Fikir, 28, a dedicated biology teacher and loving mother of two boys, shares her journey battling the devastating effects of trachoma. Trachoma, an easily preventable bacterial eye infection, remains a significant cause of blindness in rural Ethiopia. Fikir’s experience with trachoma began at a young age, but it wasn’t until university that a friend noticed she had trachomatous trichiasis (TT), a condition where eyelashes turn inward as a result of repeat trachoma infections, causing excruciating pain and, if untreated, irreversible vision loss or blindness. Fikir’s story is one of resilience and hope as she underwent surgery for her TT at the Worsherbe Health Center, thanks to the intervention of Orbis-trained health workers. Reflecting on her journey, Fikir shares poignant insights into the challenges she faced and her determination to overcome them. “I have had repeated infections from trachoma since I was very young,” Fikir…
