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The United Nations Website for reporting on the Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals/) reports that more than one billion people live in hunger and extreme poverty. Over 32 million children are out of school. In addition to an increased likelihood of being out of school as compared to boys, girls face gender discrimination that leads to lower earning, increased illness and violent crimes. The likelihood of a child dying before its first birthday is 8 times higher for those in developing countries than for those in developed countries, and 13 times higher for the bottom billion of the population. Maternal health, labor and sex trafficking, access to clean water, HIV/AIDS, and environmental sustainability each bear grim statistics that call for action, and perhaps the hardest of all to acknowledge, is that 24,000 children in developing countries die preventable deaths every day.

The purpose of this blog is to provide information related to understanding these issues and to provide multiple resources to enable readers of this blog to take individual action. The blog will also provide updates on current activities and partnerships addressing these issues as well as some “catch up” backstories as many have asked about the path that brought me to my current passion to address social injustices and the belief that real progress is not only possible it's essential and although many of the issues are complex there are many tangible and specific things that can be done now to reduce the suffering and improve the lives of literally billions of people.


Monday, December 5, 2011

Backstory: World Vision International

The vision and work of World Vision is both inspiring and aligned with my core values. Sometime in 2010 I began monitoring the World Vision employment website submitting one unanswered application for a program management role in Haiti and another for a role leading People & Culture (HR) for the Latin America and Caribbean Region, based in Panama City, Panama. Also around that time I was reading The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns the President of World Vision U.S. and found that the book provided exceptionally detailed information on the needs of the poorest of the poor and the hopeful yet inadequate response of individuals, organizations, and governments to address those needs. The interviews and candidate selection process was set to be completed just prior to Thanksgiving (2010) and I felt very good about the interviews, although I would not actually learn the outcome until the second week of December...


From World Vision International's website: http://www.wvi.org

World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

Inspired by our Christian values, we are dedicated to working with the world’s most vulnerable people.

We serve all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.
           
            Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness;
Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.


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  1. AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 7:38 AM

    Hi Jim,
    Great blog. I'm looking forward to stuying it in detail.
    Love you much, Dad

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