World Vision Advocate Network eNewsletter

The World Vision Advocate Network eNewsletter is published each month with stories and up-to-date information about opportunities to take meaningful action for those suffering from poverty, disease, and exploitation.

November 2009: World AIDS Day is coming

• HIV-positive mother takes critical steps to save her baby from the virus
• Video: Saving a life
• AIDS advocacy update: Past successes and the challenges we face today
• Action of the month: Support prevention of mother-to-child transmission
• Faces of advocacy: Nursing student becomes leader for AIDS awareness on campus
• Creative activism: Lives are on the Line

October 2009: Tackling child slavery

• Former child laborer advocates for child protection in her community
• Video: We can fight child slavery together
  
• Action of the month: Child Protection Compact Act
• Pennsylvania teen speaks out against child trafficking
  
• Creative activism: Broken Bread Poverty Meal
  
• Urbana 2009: World Vision participates in poverty and advocacy track

September 2009: The power of prayer and advocacy

• Pray with us on October 1
  
• Video: The hunger crisis
  
• As G20 meets, is global hunger a priority?
  
• Mother and model loses hair to share in injustice
  
• Creative activism: Broken Bread Poverty Meal

August 2009: Teens act on vision for change

• Youth take vision for change to Capitol Hill
  
• Video: Youth Empowerment Summit
  
• Trafficked for a cell phone
• Teen organizes benefit shows to bring clean water to Ghana
  
• Report: Ten things you need to know about human trafficking (PDF)
  
• Resource: Citizen’s guide to advocacy

July 2009: Creative ways to speak out this summer

• Voices, together for justice
• Creative activism: Five ways to engage your church or community
• Video: They're coming to Italy to do a job
• Featured resource: The 2009 DATA Report
• Featured resource: Explore poverty and justice issues with World Vision resources

June 2009: Use your voice to combat hunger

• Critical issue update: Hunger continues to threaten families in Kenya and around the world
• Video: World Vision journalists experience five days of hunger
• Creative activism: "The Importance of Flossing" wins Filmmakers Challenge
• Behind the story: New World Vision malaria report (PDF)
• Featured resource: The Hole in our Gospel

May 2009: G8, keep your promises

• Eight countries that can save countless lives
• Creative activism: Students take cover to fight malaria through Night of Nets
• Video: Advocate with your talents
• Advocacy event: One thousand mobilize to advocate for an end to poverty
• You made a difference: Advocates save AIDS and malaria funding
• Behind the story: Fighting global hunger now

April 2009: End malaria in our lifetime

• Malaria: Wreaking devastation on a widening scale
• Night of Nets: Students bring attention to plight of children threatened by malaria
• Visit EndMalaria.org to learn more about malaria and how you can get involved
• Get to know Craig Jaggers, World Vision’s health and education policy advisor