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The Importance of Clean Water

"One child dies every 15 seconds, every single day, from water-related illnesses. Almost a billion people do not have access to safe water and 2.5 billion lack basic sanitation. At any one time, half of the world's hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases. It kills more people than malaria, AIDS, and TB combined with a catastrophic result: 2 million, most preventable deaths, every year."

-from the Washington Post, March 22, 2010

IJM Rescues Thirteen From Rice Mill in India

Breaking News Update
Location: Chennai, India
Date: March 12, 2010
Result: 13 slaves, children, women and men, were rescued from a rice mill.

Human Trafficking in Washington State

Sara Lerner, a report at KUOW has a four-part series on human trafficking in Washington State began Monday and continues through Thursday, March 18 on KUOW in the Puget Sound area.
You can also hear all four stories online, here: http://www.kuow.org/specials/humantrafficking.php
(The website also has photos, resource links, and extra audio…)

Read today's Seattle Times article about Tent City and Mercer Island Ordinance

Just follow this link for a summary of the issues regarding the new ordinance passed by MI City Council. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011347755_mercertent15m.html

The Intervention That Gets the Most Bang for the Buck

"Girls' education may be the single most cost-effective kind of aid work. It's cheap, it opens minds, it gives new career opportunities and ways to generate cash, it leads them to have fewer children and invest more in those children, and it tends to bring women from the shadows into the formal economy and society. It's not a panacea...but overall, educating girls probably has a greater transformative effect on a country than anything else one can do."

-Nicholas Kristof
March 8, 2010
NY Times, On the Ground

Watch for MIPC's Gifts of the Heart offering this May to support girls' education.

Another Way to Help Haiti Recover

Prosthetics Outreach Foundation, an MIPC Mission Partner, is sponsoring a Gala Dinner Auction to help raise funds for their work in “helping the developing world to walk again.” They are especially focusing on prosthetics work in Haiti.

Enjoy a 4-course dinner and bid on vacations, unique dining experiences, gifts, and hundreds of other items. Have a great time and help people walk again.

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 5:00pm
Meydenbauer Center
Complimentary Parking

Tickets $125 each or $1,200 table for 10

To register, visit www.pofsea.org/auction or call 206-726-1636.

MIPC members Katherine Robbs and Susan Stanley are POF board members. Would you like to sit at their table? Just ask when you register!
For more information about POF, go to www.pofsea.org