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One Year On: World Vision fears COVID-19 pandemic will reverse the gains of poverty reduction, development efforts in the last 20 years
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16 March, 2021 – COVID-19 could reverse 20 years of progress in reducing hunger and improving the health of millions of children across the globe, according to child-focused development and aid agency World Vision.
“We must not allow the pandemic to continue to rob children of their God-given potential as education is put on hold, health systems are overwhelmed, vaccinations paused, and children left hungry as livelihoods are decimated,” said Andrew Morley, President and CEO of World Vision International.
In the Philippines, after a year of enforced community quarantine to prevent further spread of Covid-19 nationwide, more vulnerable families bear the staggering loss of livelihoods to make ends meet and source the basic of family needs like food.
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Several celebrities gave their ful support to World Vision through the “A Year of Firsts” Instagram Live Series.
Despite the difficulty of finding a stable job, Rodelyn Rabaya, who is unemployed, still hopes to earn a decent living. “I worked as an office encoder and as a warehouse assistant but since the contracts ended, I have been without work since then,” said the 23-year-old housewife from Baseco compound in Manila.
Especially now with a global health crisis, she thought opportunities were hard to come by for someone like her who did not earn a college diploma. Rabaya had to drop out from first year college to give way for her other siblings’ schooling.