This February 14th, will you honor a woman or girl in your life who you love by saving a girl – a girl like Ai Lin?
Look at beautiful baby “Ai Lin.” Isn’t she adorable? Who wouldn’t love her?
Yet,
Ai Lin is an unwanted second daughter. Her grandfather already has a
granddaughter and expected a grandson. As a village leader, he holds
great authority. In fact, Ai Lin’s own grandfather forced a seven-month
pregnant woman in their village to have an abortion. Because that baby
turned out to be a boy, people say that he is cursed because he has two
granddaughters and no grandsons.
Ai
Lin’s grandfather expected her to be a boy. If the grandfather had
known that Ai Lin would be a girl, who knows if he would have forced Ai
Lin’s mother to have an abortion. Instead, he pressured Ai Lin’s mother
to “give her away” so her mother can have a baby boy. In the Chinese
countryside, to “give away” a baby girl too often means to leave her in a
field to die. Ai Lin’s mother was extremely distressed and did not
know what to do.
Thankfully,
a Women’s Rights Without Frontiers’ (WRWF) undercover fieldworkers
found Ai Lin’s mother before it was too late. Our fieldworker told her
that we are helping mothers keep their girls because we believe that
girls are just as good as boys. Our fieldworker offered Ai Lin’s mother
a monthly stipend for a year to empower her to keep her daughter. With
the help of this stipend, Ai Lin’s mother is defying the pressure from
her father-in-law and is raising Ai Lin.
Our
“Save a Girl” program saved Ai Lin’s life. Her mother believes that we
were “sent to her by God to encourage her to keep her daughter.”
This Valentine’s Day, will you help “Save a Girl” by honoring the women and girls that you love?
What better way of expressing gratitude for the woman or girl in your life than by rescuing a woman and a girl in China?
Step 1: Donate $25 or more – the amount of money it takes to help support a girl saved in China for one month
Step
2: Indicate in the notes section of your donation the woman or girl you
wish to honor, and her email address. We will send her an email to let
her know you have given a donation in her honor to our “Save a Girl”
Campaign.
Will you help us save women and girls in China? Become a “GirlSaver!”
Won’t you help us save more girls like Ai Lin? So far, we have saved
hundreds of girls, and yet there are millions more who are being aborted
or abandoned just because they are girls. Each one of these girls is
infinitely precious. Please help us save them by donating to our “Save a
Girl” Campaign.
Learn more about how you can help to save girls here:
http://womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=give
For $25 per month, or $300 per year, our GirlSavers have helped
WRWF save at-risk babies in China, babies like Ai Lin, who may not be
alive if our undercover fieldworker had not met her mother and assured
her that little girls are as special as boys. We put our money where our
mouth is, offering practical assistance to empower these mothers to
keep their daughters.
