{"id":75935,"date":"2021-04-20T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=75935"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:34:59","slug":"every-last-one-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/charitable-giving-news-stories\/every-last-one-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Called by God: The Every Last One campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Throughout World Vision’s more than 70 years of work<\/a>, our roots have run deep in helping where people are suffering, where poverty seems undefeatable, and where the needs are great. With God’s sustaining hand and faithful support from people like you, we were there in the wake of the Vietnam War with Operation Seasweep<\/a>, sailing the South China Sea to pick up Vietnamese refugees that the world had turned its back on. We were there during the Ethiopian famine<\/a>, feeding starving children and doing the much harder work of helping to establish long-lasting systems that have transformed lives and the region. We cried out for the church to respond when the AIDS<\/a> crisis was creating orphans at an astonishing rate. We’ve been helping countless families since the Syrian<\/a> civil war resulted in the largest refugee crisis of our day. And today, we’re responding to the crippling needs brought on by the COVID-19<\/a> pandemic in every country we work in while our staff are all equally affected by this crisis.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”75957″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 2010, we embarked on a mission unlike any we’d ever undertaken. In the middle of a major economic crisis, we launched World Vision’s Campaign For Every Child (FEC)<\/a>. Our goal was to empower 20 million people worldwide with life-changing resources. We felt God calling us to make this bold move, and many of you felt the same call. Because God honored our joint efforts, this groundbreaking campaign had an incredible global impact. We exceeded our goals, reaching more than 25 million people — half of them children — in just five years.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”75948″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each of these challenges seemed insurmountable — the numbers too big, the need too great. But World Vision instead said “together, we can do this, because this vision is from God.” He is our confidence who has guided us and provided for us for over 70 years. And He has stirred in your hearts and inspired you to be part of His great work of empowering children and families to raise themselves out of poverty so they can have life, hope, and a future — even amid crises like a global pandemic<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”75952″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”75956″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]And that’s why we’re not backing down, and instead we’re setting an even more audacious goal. At God’s prompting in late 2015, World Vision launched Every Last One (ELO)<\/a> — a $1 billion capital campaign over eight years to reach more than 60 million people*. It’s over twice as large as FEC was, and it builds on our global child sponsorship<\/a> foundation — accelerating development in places where sponsorship projects already have a firm footprint. In these communities, campaign projects — funded by private donors and philanthropists<\/a> — help us make an even bigger impact even faster, meeting a family’s needs through three areas of focus:<\/p>\n