1. What kind of world do you want to have?
You can make a difference.
Imagine.

2. People have basic needs.
People need food.
People need clean water.
Clean air too!
People need shelter.
People need clothing.
People need medical care.
People need education.

3. Sometimes people don’t
have these needs.
There are many of reasons for this:
Natural Disasters
War
Loss of Job Bad Government
Poverty
Accidents
Bad Economy Prejudice

4. People can’t live happy healthy lives without
these basic needs.
They may suffer.
There are many charitable organizations around
the world that work to provide people with what
they need to live happy healthy lives.
We can help the world by supporting these
organizations.

5. How Do You Want to Help the
World?

6. What would it be like if you couldn’t read?
You couldn’t enjoy a good book.
You couldn’t read instructions.
As an adult, you couldn’t find a good job.
You couldn’t read to your children.
Imagine
What if you didn’t have a school where you could learn?
What if you went to school and they spoke a different
language that you didn’t understand?

7. Education
Going to a good school and having the opportunity to learn probably seems
normal to you.
But many people in the world are not as fortunate as we are.
In some regions of Ghana, even fewer people can read!

8. Education
The Mamprusi live in one of the most deprived areas of Ghana. The Mamprusi
have one of the lowest literacy rates in Ghana.
The literacy rate in in English below 5%. The literacy rate in the Mamprusi language
(Mampruli) is below 1%.
School enrollment is below 40%, and dropout and
grade repeat rates are very high.

9. Education
Pambe Ghana
Pambe Ghana provides excellent,
culturally appropriate primary
education for children in northern
Ghana.
Instruction is in English and their “mother-
tongue” language—Mampruli.

10. Education
Pambe Ghana
“The weak foundation of the early school
years places children of poor rural families
at a serious disadvantage. Many drop out;
a few struggle on in school but without
success. Their educational level is too poor
to enable them to find jobs, yet they no
longer fit in their communities. This further
discourages parents from sending their
children to school.”

11. Education
Pambe Ghana
Some considerations:
Pambe Ghana is the smallest organization you
have to choose from.
It’s just one school, in
one part of the world.

12. Education
Pambe Ghana
Some considerations:
Even though Pambe Ghana is small, it can
make a big difference in the lives of the people
it helps.

13. Education
Pambe Ghana
Some considerations:
Your money will go a long way in Ghana.
Teacher’s assistant for one month $40
Teacher’s salary for one month $150
Water Tank $750
On child’s education for a year $1,300
Class supplies for one classroom $2,500
Cost to build one classroom $5,000

14. What would it be like to be sick but not able to see a doctor?
What if you needed medicine but couldn’t get any?
Imagine
What if you need an operation, but that wasn’t possible?
What if someone in your family was sick but couldn’t get
care?

15. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an
international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and
journalists in France in 1971.
Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is
threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict,
epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

16. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Armed Conflict
In numerous countries, MSF is providing
medical care to people caught in war zones.

17. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Epidemics
MSF has a long history of responding to epidemic outbreaks of
cholera, meningitis, measles, malaria, and other infectious
diseases that spread rapidly and can be fatal if not treated.

18. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Malnutrition
In 2009, MSF treated approximately 200,000 severely
and moderately malnourished children in a host of
countries in Africa and Asia.

19. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Natural Disasters
MSF often plays a large role in tending to the wounded and the ill who after
natural disasters.
MSF helped when the Kashmir region of
Pakistan and India was hit by a devastating
earthquake in 2005
or when flooding swamped Mexico in 2007
and when cyclones thrashed Bangladesh in
2007 and Myanmar in 2008.
And MSF helped after the earthquake in Hati in
2010.

20. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Exclusion from Health Care
In many parts of the
world, certain groups
—like refugees—are
prevented from
accessing adequate
health care simply
because of who they
are.

21. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Here are some
more examples of
their work.

22. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
After the earthquake in Haiti, doctors arrived in
Port-au-Prince to bring emergency medical care to
earthquake survivors on January 15.

23. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
In Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, MSF provided
hundreds of tons of water every day.
December 8, 2010

24. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Two weeks after floods hit areas of Pakistan, MSF has
sent 110 tons of water-and-sanitation equipment,
drugs, and medical material into the country.

25. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
In Ethiopia's Somali region, MSF is the only
healthcare provider. The staff built a clinic on a
former football field .

26. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
One month after a major earthquake
hit Sumatra, Indonesia, Doctors
Without Borders (MSF) continued
operating mobile clinics, giving mental
health support to survivors,
monitoring epidemics, distributing
relief items, as well as providing water
and sanitation support .

27. Medical Care
Doctors Without Borders
Some considerations:
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides medical care and
procedures, like surgery, to people that would not get that
care otherwise.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) responds to disasters but also
provides regular healthcare to some people. Sometimes they
help with other basic needs like food and clean water.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a large organization that
helps people in other parts of the world.

28. What if a tornado destroyed your home?
What if you had a fire? What if we had a flood?
Or an earthquake? Or a hurricane?
Imagine
Where would you stay?
What would you eat?
What would you wear?

29. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross provides disaster
relief here at home and around the world.
They provide help after . . .
Chemical Emergencies
Thunderstorms
Earthquakes
Tornadoes
Fires
Tsunami
Floods
Volcanoes
Heat Waves
Wildfires
Hurricanes
Winter Storms
Landslides

30. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
Here are some
examples of their
work.

31. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs) deliver hot food to individuals
affected by the tornado. ERV crews come from around the country and deliver
meals and cleanup supplies door to door in the disaster affected area.
May, 2003, Oklahoma

32. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
Reagan, age 4 and who was crying just moments before, becomes instantly happy
when presented with Red Cross/Ty stuffed animals. Regan's home was destroyed in
Moore, Oklahoma by the tornado and Reagan lost all her toys.
May, 2003, Oklahoma

33. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
Red Crosser surveys the damage at the Oakridge Mobile Home Park.
Nov 2008 - Southern California Wildfires - Sylmar, CA

34. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
As residents sift through the rubble of their homes, the Red Cross was there to
greet them with food, water, and emotional support.
Nov 2008 - Southern California Wildfires - Oakridge Mobile Home Park-Sylmar, CA

35. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
Heavy rains caused severe flooding in southern Missouri.
Poplar Bluff, MO March 19, 2008

36. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
Karen Viebock from the Red Cross American Red Cross volunteers fed
meets with Ellington Mayor Ron people at the Red Cross shelter in the
Wakefield to discuss disaster relief for Harvest Baptist Church in Piedmont,
the citizens of the town who have MO.
been affected by the flooding. Piedmont, MO
Ellington, MO March 24, 2008
March 25, 2008

37. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
August 2005 - Hurricane Katrina -- This pile of rubble was once
a stately beachfront mansion in Biloxi, Mississippi.

38. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
September 2005 - Hurricane Katrina -- Shelters open in the communities offering
a safe place to stay, food and water.
With no power, they served Heater Meals - individually packaged complete meals
with a chemical pouch that heats the main course in a matter of minutes.

39. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
August 2005 - Hurricane Katrina

40. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross responds to both domestic and international disasters.
2005 Pakistan

41. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross responds to both domestic and international disasters.
Dec. 2004 South Asian Tsunami

42. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross also provides a lot of other services.
•They help victims of
war.
•They provide
community services that
help the needy.
•They support and
comfort for military
members and their
families

43. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
•They collect, process and distribute of
lifesaving blood and blood products
•They have educational programs that
promote health and safety.

44. Disaster Relief
American Red Cross
Some considerations:
The American Red Cross is a big organization.
The American Red Cross helps people all around
the world but also here at home.
The American Red Cross mainly provides
disaster relief, but it does other things too:
helps military families, collects blood, provides
education for things like CPR.

45. What if you didn’t have any breakfast?
What if you didn’t have any lunch?
Imagine
What if you weren’t sure if you were going to eat dinner?
What if you went to bed hungry?

46. Hunger
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma distributes
enough food to feed more than 77,000 hungry
Oklahomans each week through 700 charitable
feeding programs and elementary schools in
Oklahoma.
500,000 Oklahomans will wake up today and
wonder where their next meal will come from.
Oklahoma ranks as the fifth hungriest state in the
nation.

47. Hunger
The majority of those helped by the Regional Food Bank are . . .
the working poor children
seniors

48. Hunger
The Working Poor
Some parents work multiple jobs and skip
meals just so they can make sure their
children are fed. They have tough decisions to
make every day:
whether to fill up the car or put food on the
table . . .
whether to pay the utilities or put food on
the table . . .
whether to pay the rent or put food on the
table.
All it takes is one illness, one dead car battery or one rent hike
and they can no longer take care of their family without help.

49. Hunger
Seniors
The Regional Food Bank provides When asked how the program
help to those many consider the
most vulnerable in our state: our helped them this year, seniors
senior citizens. Sadly, many have responded:
outlived their families, outlived their
income, or have simply been “It helps me from going hungry.”
forgotten.
“It helps a lot since it comes at the end of
the month when I am out of food. I
appreciate the help.”
“It made the difference between eating
every day of the month and having to skip
meals, or eating as little as a hot dog for
the entire day.”

50. Hunger
Children
“One in four children in Oklahoma is at risk for hunger every day.
Unfortunately, for many children, hunger isn't just an occasional
missed meal, it is a way of life.

51. Hunger
Children
Children who live
with hunger can
have many
problems. It hurts
their development.
They are likely to
miss school. And it’s
hard for them to do
well in school.

52. Hunger
Children
Some considerations:
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma feeds hungry people.
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma helps people here in
Oklahoma. It does not operate anywhere else.
There are lots of hungry people here in Oklahoma.

53. What if your roof always leaked?
What if there were holes in your walls?
What if your house didn’t keep you warm?
Imagine
What if your plumbing didn’t work?
What if breathing the air in your house was making you sick?
What if your house were falling apart?

54. Shelter
Habitat For Humanity
Mission Statement
Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere,
from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building
and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities
in which every person can experience God’s love and can live and grow into all
that God intends.
What is Habitat for Humanity International?
A nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry.
We seek to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make
decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To accomplish these goals, we invite people of all backgrounds, races and religions to
build houses together in partnership with families in need.
Today, we have helped build over 400,000 decent, affordable houses and served more
than 2 million people around the world.
Click the logo for
examples of their work.

55. Shelter
Habitat For Humanity
Some considerations:
About 1.6 billion people in the world live in substandard housing. 100 million
are homeless.
95 million people in the U.S. have housing problems.
Clean, decent, and stable housing provides more than just a roof over
someone’s head.
It gives a family more stability.
It gives a family dignity and pride.
It improves health, physical safety, and security.
Increase of educational and job prospects.

56. Shelter
Habitat For Humanity
Some considerations:
Research findings
Housing improves health
Dust mite allergens and mold can contribute
to allergies or asthma.
Children in bad housing have increased risk of
infections and a other health problems.
Housing is good for children
Owning a home leads to a nicer home environment, and children do better in
school.
Children who live in bad housing have lower educational attainment and a
greater likelihood of being impoverished and unemployed as adults.

57. Shelter
Habitat For Humanity
Some considerations:
Habitat for Humanity is a large organization. It helps people here in
Oklahoma, across our country, and around the world.
Habitat for Humanity is a religious organization. The other choices are not.

58. You can make a difference.
Imagine