Two Weeks to go - Let's turn it up!!

Between Dec 7th and 18th, the world’s leaders are going to be gathering in Copenhagen to make some big decisions about the future of our planet. They’re talking Climate Change. As VGenner’s, we understand that Climate Change is increasingly threatening the livelihoods of the poor, so now is the time to speak out and tell our leaders just how important it is they take strong and urgent action to fight global warming!

We need to remind our leaders of children like Nway who are living in poor, vulnerable (and innocent!) communities which are already feeling the impacts of climate change. It's just not right.

Over the next few weeks we need VGenners to get out there and campaign hard - we've got some awesome strategic and aligned actions for you below - and then UNITE for a National Day of Action on December 12th as we rally around Walk Against Warming.

It's going to be amazing. The best part - we're going to maximise our impact.

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You need to meet Nway - her story must be told

When World Vision first met nine-year-old Nway in the wake of Cyclone Nargis as she stumbled around the ruins of her cyclone-ravished school,she carried a blank look on her face – every member of her family had been killed.

Nway was with her aunt when the cyclone struck. The pair squeezed into the village headman's house along with 100 other people. After hours of lashing rain and 240km/h winds, night turned to day and revealed flattened rice crops, flooded roadways, houses reduced to rubble and an unprecedented death toll.

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VGenner Brett Woods and MP Kate Ellis' Indian adventure in pictures

Kate Ellis (Federal MP & VGen Ambassador) spent her parliamentary holidays this year in India with World Vision and VGen star Brett Woods. Here Brett tells us in pictures about their amazing trip...
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At all the World Vision projects Kate visited, she met strong, empowered, generous women who were committed to generating opportunities for their own children to ensure they were able to attend school, access healthcare and also just enjoy the crazyness of being kids. Three women we met had purchased sewing machines with a loan from World Vision and had set up their own business to bring money into the family - meaning their children no longer needed to work and were free to go to school.

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