Giving Tuesday began as a global generosity movement. Positioned right after the consumption focused Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday works to shift our focus, and our giving power, back to our communities and the world.
Investing in people is exactly what we do here at The Adventure Project, which is why for Giving Tuesday this year our goal is to invest in 100 people.
In our 10 years as an organization, we’ve seen how investing in people makes them heroes in their own communities. Because that one person who is given a job because of your support will go on to serve at least 500 members of their own community.
These heroes you have supported have become essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are the ones who continue to bring life-saving medicines and equipment to at-risk communities. They are the ones making sure clean water is readily available and free. They are the ones ensuring people have access to clean cookstoves so women and children aren’t being burdened with sick lungs during a pandemic that affects the respiratory system. These heroes are the ones who, with the help of a simple irrigation pump, harvest enough food to feed their own families and then share the extras with their neighbors.
People like Grace, a Community Health Worker in Uganda. Soon after Grace went through her CHW training, a desperate mother called for her to come help her very sick child. Grace knew the signs of malaria and treated the child. Once the community saw that the gravely ill child had survived, Grace became the most trusted, most loved mother in the village. She became known as Grace, the kind one. She now cares for over 800 people in her community and has treated over 300 cases of malaria.
Or Saturday, a well caretaker in Kamwenge, Uganda. Saturday said he loved his job because for the first time he had an office job (because of the umbrella). Saturday wanted to become a well mechanic because he said they used to rely on a well chairperson but he would only fix the well after a month of it being broken down. During that time, people would just go to the ponds and collect “very smelly water with algae” which gave stomach aches and diseases. Now his community has constant access to clean water and he is seen as a respected member of society.
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