World Vision ACT:S is a network of young people committed to exploring what our faith says about poverty and injustice, using creative activism to bring issues to life and change hearts, and using our voices to advocate on AIDS, malaria, hunger, and child slavery.
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Below are the latest stories, resources, and campaigns. If you would like to contribute, e-mail acts@worldvision.org.
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LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER 17 – ACT:S TO END MALARIA
World Vision ACT:S is partnering with RELEVANT Magazine on our biggest creative activism platform yet – ACT:S TO END MALARIA, a campaign to mobilize our churches, campuses, and communities to take action to end malaria deaths by 2015.
Individually, we can each save a life from malaria, but it will take a massive movement to save an entire generation. ACT:S TO END MALARIA provides tools and resources for you to ignite a movement by using creative activism to take over your communities, host meaningful events, and ultimately mobilize people to take life-saving actions.
Art & Advocacy: A Pounding Heartbeat
Photo www.nnekaworld.com
By Lauren Seibert, ACT:S Advocacy & Campaigns Fellow
In the car the other day, I was casually listening to a friend’s mixed CD—a fairly predictable blend of top chart hits from Usher, Drake, Lil Wayne, etc.—when an unexpected beat suddenly jolted through the speakers. It had been a Drake song, but what…?
I whipped my head around to look at my friend, confused. “Play that again!” I commanded. “Was that Nneka? No way. On one of Drake’s tracks?”
Never Surrender: Fighting for the MDGs
By James Addis, World Vision Magazine
One of the drawbacks of working for World Vision magazine is you sometimes get to edit a ton of bad news. Here’s some of the stuff that has passed across my desk in the last few weeks: millions made homeless by floods in Pakistan and China, more massive flooding in Romania, devastating tropical storms in Central America, an outbreak of cholera in Mozambique, and millions starving in Niger. In short, the sort of material that can make you want to jump off the nearest tall building without a parachute.
The trouble with this kind of news is that it can narrowly focus your attention on the big headaches of the moment. But take a look at longer-term global trends, and you might be surprised to learn that they present a more optimistic picture. That’s why I find reporting on the Millennium Development Goals a healthy antidote.
From the Field: In Pakistan, Everyday Counts
By Mike Bailey, World Vision
“Every day counts.” Conny Lenneberg, policy director for World Vision summed up the crisis facing children under one year old after three weeks of diarrhea, dehydration and going without enough food. “These little ones are so fragile now; if we don’t get aid to them soon many will die.”
We are in a camp for displaced persons north of Mazaffragar in Punjab province. Shadia and Anim have been telling us what happened the night they abandoned their homes in Suzama village to the rising flood water.
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