Emergency Appeal: COVID-19 Time to Rebuild

When we went into lockdown for the first time back in March we all thought it was going to be a few weeks to prepare and then things would go back to normal. But as we all see this was wrong and now people are trying to move on the need for support is growing by the second. 

With your support we have been able to fund a number of emergency response projects around the world. Including funding PPE in South Africa, Funding a free phone emergency line for women and children that found themselves victims of domestic abuse due to lockdowns and high rise in unemployment in Zimbabwe. We funded emergency food projects across Latin America and Africa and today we are still funding over 200 daily meals to three townships in South Africa, funding permitting we hope to continue this project until the end of the year as it is a vital lifeline for the majority of those we feed. 

We have also been able to fund masks, oxygen for a community hospital in Peru and over in Ghana we have trained 4 teachers and 2 police officers in emergency first response training and provided advanced equipped and PPE ready first aid kits. 

This is just a snippet of what we have been doing and now we try to balance our emergency response efforts with rebuilding and support to activate our projects and help everyone try to get back on track or retrain. This comes at a huge cost and we traditionally work in rural and remote locations which means often government funding never makes it to these communities, without you they wouldn’t be able to survive. 

As we approach thanksgiving and giving Tuesday we would like to remind you that GlobalGiving is putting up $1million for match funding on 1st December and so we would love for anyone that can to donate again on the 1st so together we can help accelerate our post COVID rebuilding projects in early 2021.

Thank you for continued support

Dear Supporters,

A call away from a new life! Because of your generosity through donations to our COVID-19 Emergency appeal one of the projects we were able to launch was a toll-free phone line for victims of domestic violence. 

With national lockdowns being imposed by governments around the world we noticed a quick spike in domestic violence cases as people began to be in each other's space 24/7.   In Zimbabwe, over 10,000 women reported sexual abuse yearly before COVID-19 and our new project for Women Empowerment in Zimbabwe reached out to us to help those in need as numbers begain to rise with lockdown. 

Because of your donations and support we were able to fund a toll-free phone call centre for victims of domestic abuse to reach out to confidentially. The phone line has now been toll-free for a week and we have already received two calls that the team are working with and we will begin to advertise and market this service across local communities from next week. 

Your donations have funded this project to be toll-free for the next 3 months but we have many more projects in need of funding to do similar projects and help communities as we begin to open economies and businesses. The rebuild post COVID-19 is already shaping up to look like a challenging task but together we can help everyone retrain and enter the new world we all face. 

Thank you for your continued support during such a challenging time and we would like to remind you that GlobalGiving are running a very special match funding day on July 15th when donations of $100 or more will be matched, we would be very grateful if you can put this date in your diary and help us share our project with your network on this day! 

If you would like to find out more about our project please do reach out to us at hello@gvitrust.org 

With Gratitude,

Emergency Response To Corona Virus

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