These links will take you to websites where you can see the positive work being done for young girls & children & mothers in Ethiopia. Amari is from a region in Ethiopia that has a high level of poverty and Malaria. AIDS is a serious problem there as well. The children and the families there are so incredibly vulnerable.
I actually watched Idol Gives Back last night.
It was an education in every video. For example I learned that I had blinders on during our trip to Ethiopia. We were walking & driving around these young girls and their owners, all a part of the sex trade, without knowing it. The footage that they had on Idol was the same as much of ours but theirs comes with clearer eyes. And while I knew that girls could be married young - ages 5 & 7 still shocked me. Babies that lost their mothers in childbirth due to AIDS.
There is so much that is being done to help and it is working.
Children living because they have a mosquito net to sleep under at night. Vaccinations cost pennies and save so many lives. Bright Hope School for girls is in Addis Ababa.
Idol supports programs all over the world. The medical buses that go to rural areas in Arizona are amazing. Food pantries that are helping teachers feed their families, Haiti, literacy in America, and more.
http://www.americanidol.com/idolgivesback/
Bright Hope School (Biruh Tesfa)
http://www.unfoundation.org/our-impact/stories-of-impact/empowering-women-girls/a-12-year-olds-18-hour-work.html
Heres the video interview of Bill and Malinda Gates.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/global-health/pages/idol-gives-back.aspx
The organizations that are supported:
www.childrenshealthfund.org
www.feedingamerica.org
www.malarianomore.org
www.savethechildren.org
www.unfoundation.org
http://www.one.org/us/
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx
Food for thought.
No comments:
Post a Comment