How much difference can World Vision hope to make in light of the magnitude of this crisis in Africa?
AIDS has devastated millions of African families — but there are signs of hope. Uganda was the first country to report a decline in instances of infection. Uganda’s infection rate decreased from 15 percent in 1991 to 6.7 percent by the end of 2005. Similar successes have been seen in Rwanda, Kenya, Senegal, and urban areas of Zimbabwe, as well as in countries in the Caribbean and Asia. World Vision hopes, through values-based life skills training — curriculum provided by Scripture Union aimed at encouraging youth to resist unhealthy behaviors — to contribute to further prevention successes in the countries in which it works. Indeed, during the first half of Fiscal Year 2006, more than 375,000 people received life-skills training through World Vision programs in 20 African countries. In addition, the organization’s field offices have set a God-sized goal of mobilizing community-based care for more than 2 million orphans and vulnerable children by 2010. During the first half of Fiscal Ye
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