A World in Need was started in 2010 to raise money for people in need. Ms. Bisk has been blessed to have had a chance to travel to much of the world and has been duly affected by the people she's met and hardships she's seen. Many donations are made through or to people she knows. When not travelling, Ms.Bisk stays in touch with people working in areas in need and often tries to direct donations to these people to ensure all money donated is going directly to helping a specific situation. No matter how small, how singular the life, it's always important and we can make a change. Change can start with one person, in one community and spread outwards from there. Every person, if they have a spare dollar, can help someone else in need.
We've accomplished wonderful things already, improving the quality of life for many.
- In Dec 2010 we paid for Bounchan, a seventeen year old novice monk's kidney stone removal in Laos. This darling kid had suffered from severe pain for years. He's now pain free and thrilled.
-We bought a prosthetic leg for a victim of land mines in Laos, where hundreds of people, mostly children, are still maimed or killed by unexploded land mines leftover from the Vietnam War, each year. The leg will allow the child to live a normal life.
-We bought four rabbits, a rabbit cage and a sewing machine for two groups of women living in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo. These women are all victims of single or multiple rapes, a horrifyingly common occurence there. The rabbits and the sewing machine will allow the two groups to restart their affected lives and better support themselves and their families. That one sewing machine is enough for ten women to use to learn the sewing trade to support themselves.
-We bought four months of food for a young female student, Baseme, and her daughter, also a student in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Baseme was the victim of multiple rapes, one resulting in her daughter. She found sponsorship to attend school for psychology and plans to help other victims of rape. However, before our donation, she did not have the money to feed herself. Now she can eat and study and become a source of hope for others.
-We helped a young Lao man start a reading library in his rural home town in north-central Laos. In a farming town where there's only one elementary school for the surrounding five towns, he's created a place where everyone, of all ages, can come to learn, full of books and maps. Plus, every weekend Lao college students come to help teach.
-We purchased twenty five insecticide-treated nets to be distributed to Africans living at threat of malaria. This disease is the number one killer in Africa, and something as simple as a net is the most effective means of prevention for the millions of poor Africans.
-We bought two-hundred meals for school children in Africa, meaning they not only have a full belly today and a better ability to learn, but they have a much better shot at bright future, as their parents have an incentive to make sure their children go to school.
-We donated to Maman Marie's work in the Congo, supporting and raising up the hope and future of the thousands of victims of sexual violence. There is no one else there doing the work she does, in a society where rape happens daily, mostly perpetrated on civilian women by government soldiers. Maman Marie has devoted her life to working with victims of these crimes, ensuring their voices are heard, and helping these women to continue their lives and find ways to support themselves and their families.
-We donated to a program in Zambia enabling the most food insecure families to lift themselves out of poverty by training them in improved farming and livestock techniques, giving them new seeds and goats, and providing them the use of needed equipment.
-We made micro-loans through Kiva, allowing us to help small entrepeneurs all over the world to realize their dreams and raise their families out of poverty; in Nigeria, Togo, The Phillipines, Vietnam, El Salvador, Mongolia, Peru, Ecuador, Armenia and Bolivia.
