Greatest Need
Intro: By supporting the Greatest Need cause through ‘Eat So They Can’, hosts
will be giving women and children an opportunity to have a brighter future. Funds
will be used to support both immediate needs and sustainability projects at
schools, orphanages, community centers and camps in Asia, Africa, and South
America.
Example Beneficiary: In Kenya, our partner
works with 3 IDP camps and 50 schools and
orphanages in and around Nairobi. Happy Life
Children’s Home is a baby orphanage that takes
care of babies given up by parents who are unable
or unwilling to care for them. Happy life offers
temporary shelter and their motto is 'Help for
Abandoned Babies'. Right now there are 37 babies
altogether and they are all up for adoption. Many
of the babies arrive malnourished and sick and Eat
So They Can funding provides desperately needed
baby cots, formula, and medical care.
Example Impacts:
$18 will provide a child at a school in Rwanda with a meal each day for 1 month.
$50 will buy enough dyes and fabric to enable a Ugandan woman to start her own
enterprise.
$690 will allow us to build a home for an IDP family in Kenya currently living in a
tent.
Key facts:
Every 3 seconds a child dies-from preventable causes like pneumonia,
malaria or complications in childbirth.
Every child has a right to learn. Yet 75 million children, of whom 41 million
are girls, do not go to primary school.
The Haitian Government estimated that over 230,000 people died,
300,000 people were injured and 1,000,000 people were made homeless
in the January 12 earthquake.
There are 2.5 million child sex slaves in the world today.
When girls receive 7 years of education on average they marry 4 years
later and have 2.2 fewer children.
Countries and Partners Supported:
The exact use of your funds will be determined by the GVN Foundation based on
which projects have the greatest need at the time of funds distribution. GVN
Foundation currently works with projects in Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Nepal.
Vietnam, and the Philippines.