We recently attended “The Big Event,” a fund-raiser for the Global Orphan Project held Nov. 8 at the Midland Theater in Kansas City. It was uplifting to be among people dedicated to the purpose of helping orphaned and abandoned children around the world.
We have been involved with this organization for the last several years when it was known as C3 Missions International. It is “re-branding” itself as the Global Orphan Project, just as we are repositioning our own foundation as the One5 Foundation. Both organizations have worked side-by-side over the years to fight extreme poverty.
The Global Orphan Project currently has 110 homes operating in 14 countries that are helping more than 3,500 children.
At “The Big Event,” leaders talked about our shared philosophy of philanthropy – to provide developing societies with food, shelter, clean water, so they can stabilize. That, in turn, will encourage investment and economic growth so that a community can sustain itself.
The One5 Foundation is focused on reducing the mortality rate among children in developing nations. The new name will be used with the tagline “One Child, One World, Five Killers.” This refers to the five greatest killers of children in the developing world:
- Acute respiratory infections (pneumonia)
- Diarrheal diseases (cholera, typhoid, dysentery)
- Malaria
- Infectious and parasitic diseases (measles, whooping cough, worms)
- HIV/AIDS
We are hosting our own special fundraising event on Nov. 19 at the Boulevard Brewing Company, 2501 Southwest Blvd. in Kansas City. Find out the details and respond to an invitation here: https://www.one5.org/invitation.cfm
While we want you to have a good time, we also want you to know more about the magnitude of the problems facing children around the world. Every 15 seconds a child dies of a preventable or curable disease. Here is some information about a group that is drawing attention to the lack of sanitation in many developing countries.
Please show your support by attending the One5 Foundation fund-raiser or by making a donation.