I want you to meet Jeneba, an amazing and vibrant little girl I got to know during a recent visit to a children's hospital in Sierra Leone.
Today, Jeneba is a walking, smiling, laughing success story. But when she arrived at the hospital, she was dangerously ill with pneumonia and tuberculosis, diseases that kill millions of children every year in the developing world. Jeneba's story is an example of how maternal and child health care programs, supported in part by the United States, are changing the landscape in places where health care has been so perilously unavailable.
Today is International Women’s Day, and I hope you’ll celebrate by watching Jeneba’s story and learning how you can help make sure millions of children just like her have access to basic health care:
http://www.one.org/women/connie.html?id=1521-4106538-Moo6OQx&t=1
I took this trip to Sierra Leone with ONE to help kick off their new Women ONE2ONE initiative, which is all about sharing stories and making connections across great distances to empower women around the world. I was touched by Jeneba’s story, but I was also inspired by the work of so many other women I met around her – her mother, nurses, doctors, and others who are building communities and breaking cycles of poverty. By telling their stories to our friends, families and even the people who write laws in Washington, we can affect great change and give children in some of the poorest countries in the world opportunities as big as Jeneba’s smile.
Please watch our video and learn what you can do to help:
http://www.one.org/women/connie.html?id=1521-4106538-Moo6OQx&t=3 Thank you,
Connie Britton ONE Member
