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Living on less than a dollar a day, more than one billion of the world's children are all too familiar with extreme poverty. It has robbed them of hope and threatens to steal their future. By helping children living in such extreme poverty we can enable them to experience the fullness of life. Join World Vision and individuals all over the world as we seek to bring compassion and justice to the world's poorest people. As a child sponsor, you can help save a child from a life of poverty.
Your sponsorship commitment will help provide Kadiatou, 7-year old girl from Mali, and her community with clean, safe water, improved health care and the opportunity to attend school. Inoculations against common diseases will provide a healthy future for the children. -
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About World Vision
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
World Vision's child sponsorship program creates real, lasting change for children and their communities. Our compassionate, Christian staff show God's love to all people as they help build healthy communities for children in the world's most impoverished places. World Vision partners with sponsored children's communities over the long term to address critical needs and help communities become self-sustaining.
When you make a gift, your contributions are pooled with that of other sponsors of children in the community where your child lives. Your child receives health care, education, nutritious food, and the entire community benefits from access to clean water, agricultural assistance, medical care, and more.About Mali
The Republic of Mali is a landlocked country surrounded by Senegal, Mauritania, Algeria, Niger, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast. The second largest country in Africa, Mali is located in the transitional zone between the Sahara to the north and tropical Africa to the south. The climate ranges from subtropical to arid, with two dominant seasons: one wet and one dry. Natural resources are gold, phosphates, salt, limestone, uranium, and hydropower.
Mali is classified as one of the five least developed countries in the world. High population growth, variable rainfall, recurrent droughts, and the degradation of natural resources have contributed to the continuing decline of food production throughout Mali. Approximately 80 percent of Malians work in agriculture, yet less than 4 percent of the land is arable. Countries in the Sahel region of West Africa are experiencing rapid desertification, with Mali being no exception: 75 percent of the country has become desert. What little vegetation remains is cut down for building material and firewood or is eaten by roaming livestock. The growing Sahara desert also has affected the habitats of many native animals such as giraffes, gazelles, and elephants, which have been migrating in search of steady food supplies.
Mali was a French colony from 1904 to 1960, when it won independence. The first democratic presidential election was held in 1992, and the country continues to struggle with political and economic reforms and corruption. The population is comprised of five primary ethnic groups whose homogeneity is based on language and livelihood. Though French is the official language, 80 percent of the people speak Bambara or local dialects.
The country is plagued by frequent drought and insufficient food supplies, and 64 percent of the people live below the poverty line. Heavily dependent on foreign aid, Mali's economy also is vulnerable to fluctuations in world prices for cotton, the country'≠s main export. Other crops include rice, corn, vegetables, and peanuts. In August 2004 a swarm of locusts severely damaged Mali'≠s crop production, further crippling the country'≠s food supply. Experts predict that it will take up to three years to eradicate the threat of locusts, a ton of which have the ability to consume as much food in one day as 2,500 people.
Adult illiteracy in Mali is among the highest in the world. Infant and child mortality rates also are unusually high. Nearly half of all children suffer from chronic malnutrition. Thousands of children also lack access to health care, safe water, education, and a stable food supply, and many some even as young as 12 to 15 years of age are in arranged marriages. Typhoid fever and malaria continue to pose a high risk, and more than 140,000 people are suffering from HIV/AIDS.
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