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Where should the $817.40 donation from Search Kindly be applied?
- Global Food Crisis Fund
- Malaria Intervention Fund
Global Food Crisis Fund
The global food crisis is being called a “silent tsunami” that could plunge several hundred million people deeper into poverty and hunger.
Families living in extreme poverty often spend more than 50 percent of their income on food. And often, the daily income is less than $2 a day. When food prices climb, children in poverty do not eat. Food prices have risen as much as 100 percent in some countries since 2006. Many of the countries we serve are among those that have been hit hard by rising food prices.
Money donated to the Global Food Crisis Fund will help provide life saving food supplies to the children you sponsor.
Malaria Intervention Fund
Each year, more than 1 million people die from malaria. More than 750,000 of those deaths are children in Africa. That’s one child every 30 seconds. And for every child who dies, hundreds more become sick and incapacitated. Though not talked about as much as AIDS, malaria is a silent, fast killer that puts all children and families we serve in Africa at serious risk. And thousands more people in countries where we work around the world live in fear of the disease.
Money donated to the Malaria Intervention Fund allows us to provide mosquito nets and malaria prevention education to entire families of Compassion-assisted children. It also provides medical treatment for children struggling with the disease.
Food Crisis Fund
Global Food Crisis Fund, seems more pertinent at this time
Global Food Crisis Fund.
i vote for the global food crisis. both projects are important but food seems to be the biggest problem the third worl faces at present
Global food Crisis.
I believe that both issues need attention but I believe that the food issue is the most pressing. I got to see first hand the effects of maliaria in Kenya. I visisted the house of a project boy named Molinda who was suffering from malaria.
What startled me the most was that everyone treated it as if it were as common as a cold.
A child who goes a month without a net only has a small chance of getting very sick from malaria. A child who does not have have any food for a month will die.
Both causes are extrmally important to the survival of these children and their families, without food you die, and catching malaria has the consequence of death as well. Why don’t we split the donation between Global Food Crisis and the Malaria Intervention Fund.
I vote for the Malaria Intervention Fund, but only because that is where the money will go the farthest. Food is getting more expensive every day, and prices will only continue to rise in the coming months. We should continue to support both causes, of course.
This is a tough decision as both funds will help those in need. I think that the money should be split between the Malaria and the Global food crisis that way both groups can be helped at the same time.
Malaria Intervention Fund
Sara, thanks for that perspective.
The money should go to the Malaria Intervention Fund because the children need protection from the disease more than an increase in food because their bodies are used to not having that much food but they aren’t used to the germs and bacteria that can be prevented.
so… what was the outcome of this? =)
Its hard to choose but I’d go with the global food crisis….
The Global Food Crisis “won.” We just received the money from SearchKindly within the past two weeks. And several of our readers made additional donations to the Malaria Intervention Fund as well.
Today happens to be Global Food Crisis Day and so far more than $750,000 has been raised, just today, to help fight the crisis.
As everyone has said, this is a very hard choice, but I would choose the Malaria nets. All I have been able to afford to donate towards this is 20 dollars. But I feel this is so important because children can be fed and still get Malaria and die.
The money should definitely go towards my Sponsor Tour to Tanzania!
However,
I think you should give one large family gift to one family to surprise the daylights out of them
And if possible and honoring, post their blessing and or reaction on the blog so we can see how it helped and encouraged them!
@Chris Giovagnoni –
That’s great, Mike! That’s what I was going to vote for! I’m one of the people who earned money on Search Kindly for you; I was passionate about it. ;-D