World View Index for November 2002








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World View Index: November 2002

    Clip Description
    Lighthouse offers hope for teen prisoners (Mongolia)
      Mongolian teens can be imprisoned for offenses as minor as petty theft. An innovative World Vision program there helps young men turn their lives around.
    What love can do (U.S.)
      Liz had nearly given up on life when the state took her children as a result of her drug addiction. But through Love INC, loving Christians helped Liz kick drugs, find work and eventually get her kids back. Now she volunteers at her church’s Love INC chapter.
    God's power in our weakness (Myanmar)
      Many people believed S’don was deaf because of sin in a past life, but a World Vision school for the deaf helped him learn to live with his disability. Now he teaches other children that lesson.
    Eyewitness Report (Southern Africa)
      We don’t see much of the famine in Africa on the news. Steve Matthews tells us more about it.
    Food shortages in southern Africa
      Millions are in danger of starving in southern Africa, but many are not. With World Vision’s help, they have learned to protect themselves and their communities from famine.
    Punish the guilty - save the innocent
      Many Western countries blame African leadership for the current food shortage, but refusing to help only hurts the poor.
    Southern Africa food crisis and debt
      Several African countries cannot provide food for their people because they are drowning in foreign debt, accumulated generations ago. It’s time to forgive the debt and help them recover.
    A hungry child knows no politics (Ethiopia)
      Children don’t understand politics, but in too many countries, they do understand hunger. Even children of our political enemies should have enough to eat.
    Carrying the wise men and helping the poor
      Tradition tells us that camels carried the wise men to Jesus. Now they are helping families in Afghanistan and India survive. You can help provide a camel through World Vision’s gift catalog.
    Bibles for a million
      This holiday season, you can purchase a Bible for a loved on—and give Bibles to Christians in the developing world, desperate for God’s word.
    Ford has a better idea
      The Ford Motor Company in South Africa is helping stop the spread of AIDS by educating its workforce. It's time other companies invested their creativity and resources to help stop this deadly virus.
    The priest, the levite and the good samaritan
      What does the Bible have to say about the church’s responsibility to people affected by AIDS?
    One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic
      Josef Stalin may have been right in his understanding of public opinion, but we can prove him wrong by helping just one child orphaned by AIDS.
    Africa's AIDS epidemic and women
      Report on the prevalence of AIDS among Africa’s women—and their concerns for their children.
    Priest battles discrimination and AIDS
      Rev. Gideon Byamugisha is fighting AIDS on two fronts. He’s fighting the disease’s spread in his native Uganda and in his own body.
    30-second PSAs
    Southern Africa food crisis
    Giving thanks: Helping the hungry
    Feeding the hungry
    Widows and orphans in their distress
    Gift Catalog


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