We would like to thank everyone again for attending the event for Give the Needy Foundation on Saturday.
We really appreciate Samina Ahmad’s presentation on “Achieving Optimal Wellness” and enlightening us.
Please visit our web site givetheneedy.org to help us and donate for our cause.
Deborah is a 45 year old single mother of five girls. She lives in Kwangware, largest slum in Nairobi the capital city of Kenya. It has a population over 600,000 people. The living conditions are very poor; there is no access to piped water and no sewage system. The crime rate is very high in this area and due to the overpopulation diseases like HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria are very common due to the poor sanitation situation. This community is trapped in the cycle of poverty for generations.
It is unfortunate that Deborah has to support her children under these conditions for a better future. Since she was abandoned by her husband; she does not have any property rights to a potential family home or to purchase any land. In developing countries, women have less access to property ownership, medical care, training and employment. She was mistreated by her husband and was never given support or freedom to accomplish her dreams.
She wrote us a letter in which she mentioned a tragic incident that transpired. Her ex-husband who abandoned her… not only had he married another woman; but he was tormenting and threatening her for the custody of her children to start a new life with his new wife. She wrote in distress that her ex-husband had barged into her house and started beating her up brutally. Her injuries were so severe that she was admitted in the hospital for three days. We took care of all her pending bills and medical needs to help her out. We are inspired with her strength that with all the trauma and hopelessness that surrounded her she appreciative of the help and support for her deprived kids.
This is one of many incidents we come across from various women who are abandoned to help them. Please help us support these families in need to break the cycle of poverty and also to help abandoned women of Kawangware and other slum areas of the world by providing them with food, shelter and help for their medical needs; for as little as $15 a month, you can become a part of our cause.
By Ayesha Mirza
Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Let’s work to change that with Give the Needy Foundation.
3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.
(Source: water.org)
What is water crisis? It’s a situation where the demand for fresh water outruns the supply (water shortage). The two most dangers to global water stability are population growth and ground water depletion.
Human infectious diseases are the most common effects of water pollution. Some of the illnesses caused by water pollution are hepatitis A, typhoid, Gastroenteritis, Paratyphoid Fever, Shigellosis and diarrhea.
88% of cases of diarrhea worldwide are attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene.
(Source: water.org)
Some of the solutions to water crisis are reducing nutrient and pesticide pollution, reducing sewage pollution, improving storm water management, stopping deforestation, reducing pollution from oil and petroleum liquids, repairing old water systems, using less water for agriculture by using drip irrigation, increasing water conservation and focusing resources on watershed management.
In the future, water crises will become increasingly common. The world’s population is estimated to grow by three billion and 90% of this growth will be in the developing world. Unless sustainable water solutions are scaled fast, regions already stressed for safe water sources will be over capacity.
An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the typical person living in a developing country slum uses in a whole day.
(Source: water.org)
My name is Ayesha Mirza and I am the treasurer of Give the Needy Foundation. In my opinion eradicating the extreme poverty and hunger is one of the main problems in the world. Child poverty is of urgent concern, yet understudied.
Give the Needy families we support
Countries or nations with an average income that is relatively lower than in highly industrialized countries, and are in the process of change toward economic growth. They are comparatively lower than the developed countries in terms of health care, literacy, and per capita income.
In most of the underdeveloped countries, people are unable to afford basic human needs, which include clean and fresh water, shelter, nutrition, healthcare and education.
Six million children die of hunger every year – 17,000 every day
(Wikipedia)
There are many causes of poverty, some of which are overpopulation, unequal distribution of resources, inability to meet the higher standards of living and costs of living, medical care, inadequate education and employment opportunities and changing trends in economy and job markets. This epidemic is affecting everyone in any society. We should work together to eradicate this problem from our society and make it a better place.
‘Let’s help the children who live in poverty!’
- Elena Georgievska
Our main prize is: a ” Panasonic VIERA TC-P42X3 42-Inch 720p Plasma HDTV”. Along with other small prizes. You do not need to be present to win.
Please help support our families in need!
Margaret Mukaisi is a 45 year old single mother of five girls (one of which is married) was abandoned by her husband and lives Kawangare (slum area in Nairobi), where she does some gardening and grows some vegetation to support her family. Unfortunately it is not enough to support her girls, as well as send them to school; especially having bad health due to her very stressful life. In desperation she sometimes borrows money from her married daughter; who also has 2 children with her own restraints.
If you are interested to help people in need like Margaret. Please email us your interest. Your donation as little as $35 or $50 a month, equivalent or less than a night out to town, would help put food on their table.
More than 15 million people are affected by Pakistan’s worst flooding in 80 years, with at least 1,600 fatalities, according to estimates from the government of Pakistan. While the severity of their needs has not yet been fully assessed, the number is greater than those who were affected by the 2005 South Asia tsunami (5 million), the 2005 South Asia earthquake (3 million), or the 2010 Haiti earthquake (3 million). The estimate of 290,000 homes destroyed or seriously damaged is almost the same as those destroyed in Haiti. Below are organizations that are working on relief and recovery in the region.
Please help us donate a generous sum of funds to help these devasted people in need!
This is just to inform everyone that our nonprofit: Give the Needy (http://www.givetheneedy.org/) appreciates your generous support to help families in need.
We are in the process of some fundraising activities and will update you once we have the details in the next month. Please let us know if you would like to participate?
In the mean time we would like to share some letters of appreciation from the families we support. These letters help to reassure you where your contributions are going, to help deserving families in need of food and shelter: http://givetheneedy.org/letters_of_appreciation.html They are letters in PDF format. Please don’t be afraid to open them.
I hope you will continue to help support and donate on a monthly basis, as little as $10 a month which would add up in abundance. If everyone participated then we can help other families who are waiting to be supported or sponsored by you.
There is no greater satisfaction than a prayer and gratefulness of a desperate family; for putting food on their empty table! http://givetheneedy.org/donate.html
May God bless all of you for helping us make a small difference, to a fraction of people in need! We look forward to your feedback.
Janet with her 3 children
We presently have several families waiting to be supported. We are in the process of screening and listing them online. One family which we screened is listed below from Kenya.
Janet Muhavi is a 32 year old widow/single mother of three children. The oldest child is not living with her as it is too expensive to look after and keep three children in a big city like Nairobi, so her older daughter is living with her relatives up country in her village. She has a responsibility to look after two of her children with no fixed job or income. She asks and waits for people to give her work for a day or however long they can use her help; with which she earns very little to help her situation. Most of the time it is just enough to feed one person; let alone three mouths to feed. Janet is living in slum area which is quite far from Nairobi it is called Kibera.
If you are interested to help support Janet for as little as $35 to $55 a month (equivalent or less than a night out to town), please email us your interest to support her for a year. This would help cover her costs to feed her family. We will send updates on her family and give you access to her, if you want to help her further.
Give the Needy Mothers Day Card (Copyright 2010)
“Please click on the above image to enlarge the card”
The best gifts your kids can give is to show you they’ve learnt the lessons you have taught them of kindness and giving. Which is the most important lessons they would learn from you and to pass on to the next generation. How to live life as a compassionate and giving person. Why we’ve got to help those in need; who are not blessed with the advantages we may have.
This Mother’s Day, share back these wonderful life lessons with your mother, with a gift to honor or remember her with the Give the Needy Foundation.
By making a Give the Needy gift in honor of your mother this Mother’s Day, you can show her she’s shared and taught you the best lessons; along with her big generous heart.
We at Give the Needy Foundation and all the families we support. Thank you for your generosity Happy Mother’s Day!!
