Adopt+a+Village+background

=**__Adopt a Village Background Information__**=

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 * Adopt a Village initiates and supports community development for marginalized children and their families by meeting their basic human needs. Adopt a Village began with the goal of helping Sri Lankan tsunami victims with long-term relief and rebuilding efforts. The campaign has since evolved into an effective tool for helping communities in need. The program delivers holistic community development to children and their families in Kenya, Sierra Leone, rural China, and Sri Lanka.**

Supported by the Oprah’s Angel Network, and people like you, Adopt a Village services rural areas, with an emphasis on providing education to children where there is a high incidence of child poverty and child labour.

Through this new and ongoing campaign you can buy important resources for a family in need, help a mother support her children, and build a future for a smiling child. Working with Free The Children, you can help provide impoverished families with access to:

- **Education:** New schools, outfitted classrooms, learning materials, teacher training and salary-supported teachers.

- **Alternative Income:** Income generating resources such as milking animals and sewing machines

- **Health Care:** Essential health care services such as health clinics and medical supplies

- **Water and Sanitation:** New wells and sanitation systems



Quick Facts
• Adopt a Village operates in Kenya, Sierra Leone, rural China, and Sri Lanka • Oprah’s Angel Network is supporting Adopt a Village. [|Find out how]. • Alternative income projects have allowed 22,500 women to become economically self-sufficient • More than 505,000 children and adults have benefited from health centers and programs.

(Taken from Free the Children <[|http://www.freethechildren.org/getinvolved/adoptavillage.htm>)]

//**To get an even BETTER idea of what Adopt-a-Village is really all about, here's Marc Kielburger's (chief executive director of FTC, and founder of Leaders Today, FTC's sister organization) most recent blog on the FTC site:**//

By [|Marc]
 * "Adopt-a-Village is..."**

Dear Friends, I get asked a lot about Adopt a Village, Free The Children’s international development strategy. It’s a revolutionary approach, and stands out as the best way that you can help communities in the developing world break the cycle of poverty. However, a lot of people still don’t quite understand what it’s all about. So what exactly is Adopt a Village? Adopt a Village is. . . . . . an integrated, holistic approach to community development. . . . a system of projects supporting rural villages in Kenya, Ecuador, Sierra Leone, China, India and Sri Lanka. . . . a fun and easy way kids can raise awareness about children’s rights and fundraise through goal-oriented campaigns, like [|Brick by Brick] or [|Celebrate for Change]. . . . how we’ve built more than 450 schools in partnership with communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia that find more than 40,000 children in classrooms every day, providing basic primary education to empower people toward self-sustainability. . . . an innovative way of assisting more than 22,500 women and their families so far in achieving sustainable alternative sources of income—providing agricultural implements, small machinery, animals, business cooperatives and other resources. . . . a commitment of healthcare projects, clinic construction and supplies in resource-poor communities throughout Asia, Latin America and Africa, benefiting more than 505,000 people to date. . . . how we are introducing water and sanitation resources, like potable water sources and latrines, to help prevent waterborne diseases that kill 1.5 million people yearly worldwide. . . . a way you can take action to help people in the developing world meet their basic human needs while freeing them from poverty and exploitation. . . . a campaign that provides people like you with the opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of the children who need it most. Adopt a Village is all of this, and more! Take a moment to [|learn]about these projects and how you can join in and make a lasting difference. [|Marc] This entry was posted on Friday, December 7th, 2007 at 1:30 pm and is filed under [|Feature blog 2], [|News]. You can follow any responses to this entry through the [|RSS 2.0] feed. 