Current Appeal: Summer 2010
How can you help me when I don't exist?
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Imagine being a non-person. Nothing to prove who you are or when you were born; no place for you at school; no entitlement to treatment when you are ill.
For many people in rural Egypt – particularly women and girls – this is the reality. In the most impoverished communities, it is common for a girl’s birth to go unregistered – a simple enough omission when a family is just trying to survive, but one that has a profound impact on her future.
Although primary education is compulsory in Egypt, unregistered children slip through the net. They grow up unable to read or write, and become adults ill-equipped to work their way out of the desperate poverty that has affected their families for generations.
Poverty in turn deters people from seeking an education or from making sure their daughters go to school. It's a vicious cycle – but it's one that can be broken with your help.
BibleLands, in partnership with DUET (The Development of Upper Egypt Trust) has previously supported rural Egyptian communities in their goal of becoming self-sufficient. Now the elders of two more villages have requested our support. They are not asking for handouts but for help to improve the living conditions and health situation, to give all children the opportunity to go to school, to help adults gain the education they've missed out on and to set up income generation schemes so that everybody will be able to make an independent living.
Over the next three years, we aim to help at least 420 disadvantaged families. We don't want to have to choose between them, and that is why we need your support today.
Please consider making a donation and playing your part in empowering disadvantaged people to take hold of their own future. Your gift will go towards our Community Development Programme across the countries where we work, and will enable us to help individuals and families to escape the poverty trap.
Thank you for your support and prayers.
Yours in Christ,
Tricia Pruden
Head of Communications and Fundraising
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