Emergency Appeal: COVID-19 Time to Rebuild

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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Dear Supporters,

Most certainly this emergency project appeal was not on our radar as we came into 2020 but nevertheless we are facing unprecedented times and it has been inspirational to see everyone coming together to support each other.

To date we have fundraised $721 from our emergency response fund and been able to support all 70 projects with the immediate review and planning to enter an essential lock down in aid to try and limit the spread of the virus. Even with everyone supporting the lockdown we are far from over and in fact at the very beginning of this global crisis.

Your donation to this fund is already in use and has been used in the greatest needs by supporting us to support all our projects and the requests and appeal for urgent needs is growing daily. Our communities are reporting all the expected issues such as increased in demand in basic supplies is not being made available, increase in domestic abuse is being reported, homeless people are not able to access urgent care and critical resources to self-isolate and local informal business across townships around the world are unable to access funding from local government and are going under.

People who have been working hard to fund just enough money to live day by day do not have the resources or savings to support their livelihoods past tomorrow let alone next week or month. We are all in panic mode and have no idea what the future will hold for us but for some they are not going to survive very long without our intervention.

Every gift no matter what size could save a life today, as we continue to increase our front line support we need to do this together and we need you in our corner. Please share this update and connect with your network of friends and family virtually about how they can get involved and support our global community through this critical time.

Thank you!

With Gratitude,

GVI Trust