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Up Coming Events RUN/WALK AGAINST MALARIA in AFRICA (RWAMA 2007) Theme: Rain or Shine, we Run and Walk because every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria in Africa. Date: Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 Where: Downtown Fredericksburg Rappahannock Library (1201 Caroline street) Time: 7:30AM Sponsor, Run, or Walk and you automatically become a WINNER. All
participants will receive free T-shirt, sun-visor, refreshments,
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ETP AT WORK WHERE DOES EMPOWERING THE POOR, INC OPERATE?
Empowering The Poor, Inc. (ETP) operates in Sub Sahara Africa, the only region of the developing world where poverty is increasing and health and education are worsening. In its Human Development Report (2003), the United Nations Development Program warned that: Unless things improve it will take Sub-Saharan Africa until 2129 to achieve universal primary education, until 2147 to halve extreme poverty and until 2165 to cut child mortality by two thirds. For hunger no date can be set because the region’s situation continues to worsen. (Financial Times, July 9, 2003; p.1) The majority of ETP’s targets are located in rural areas because 80% of the poor live in rural areas. ETP targets communities where 95% of the women are illiterate, and life expectancy has declined from 50 to 40 years since 1990. We will be working in communities where hospitals, electricity, running water, schools, and latrines are almost nonexistent. ETP targets communities where a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria---about 150,000 children are dying every month. Yet malaria is a preventable and treatable disease. ETP will be working in communities where young people, aged 15 to 24 are infected with HIV every 4 minutes. ETP will be working in a region where 80% of the population lives on less than $US50 cents a day. HOW DOES EMPOWERING THE POOR, INC OPERATE?ETP works closely with the chiefs and elders (women and men) in our target communities to identify creative and cost-effective ways to enhance the quality of life. ETP staff meets with the chief and elders (women and men) in our target community to discuss current living conditions and cost-effective ways to improve them. ETP listens and appropriately suggest its plan of action, then ask for the elder’s blessings before starting any activity. In a nutshell, ETP operates the following way: Our staff goes to the poor, live among them, learn from them, love them, start with what they know, and build on what they have. At the end of the day, they are teaching each other how to read a thermometer, how to read and write, how to manage cash flow and budgeting, and how to maximize their limited resources. Our programs are tailored to the cultural and social fabric of our target communities. |
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