Population Connection
is my favorite international reproductive health organization because it
combines awareness of the connections among education and contraception in
stopping population growth and warming, and the political advocacy essential to
change. Here is a recent letter from PC
that summarizes their encompassing work.
[I have highlighted key words and phrases.]
Dick 6-28-23
Population Connection
Updates!
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Jun 27, 2023, 4:28 PM (16 hours ago) |
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Hi Mr.
Bennett!
I hope this message finds you well and enjoying summer! I have been thinking of
you and wanted to share a few updates on our work. The program YOU kicked
off—alerting more Americans to the impacts of population growth on climate
change—continues strong! In fact, it’s become a huge part of our outreach. The
following graphic has become incredibly powerful in terms of bringing people to
our movement to stabilize global
population! As I know you’ll agree, it’s critical for more people to
understand that slowing—and eventually stopping—population growth is key to our
planet’s future. [I can’t copy the
graphic, it’s dramatic. –D]
Empowering women and girls through family planning and access
to formal education does far more to alleviate carbon emissions than
recycling, driving electric cars, using recycled papers, and composting
combined! What most people don’t realize is that stopping population growth can have such a tremendous impact on our
climate! We’re doing our best to share this information far and wide.
In
addition to raising the alarm, we continue to press our legislators to increase access to international family planning
options, as well as to defend women’s access to reproductive health care
services both here and abroad. At Population
Connection Action Fund, we’re reimagining our hard-hitting #Fight4HER campaign to ensure that we
can elect family planning champions running for office—this will be key to achieving
our legislative goals!
We
remain determined to repeal the Global
Gag Rule forever; to increase U.S. investments in international family planning
programs; and to reinstate women’s right to abortion access here in the U.S.
after the Supreme Court decision dismantling Roe v. Wade.
Not
only that, but you might know that we launched a new Global Partners program last year. What started small several
years ago, with direct aid to two locally based nonprofits in Uganda and
Guatemala, has now officially grown into a committed program with 19 grantees
in nine
And
we’re ramping up PopEd’s outreach
further, with not just one, but three Leadership
Institutes this summer and fall for our teacher-training volunteers, who volunteer their time to train
other teachers on how to implement our population
curricula in their classrooms, across the U.S. and in some territories
abroad. Our teacher-trainers present more than two-thirds of our workshops,
helping us to reach more than 12,000 new educators a year with our activities
for their K-12 classrooms. We’ll be expanding our volunteer teacher-trainer
presence in New Orleans, Seattle, and St. Louis this year.
Our World of 8 Billion student video contest,
now in its 12th year, received more than 3,000 student entries, all
competing to show their grasp of how population growth affects climate change,
gender equality, and waste management. With thanks to the generous support of
donors like you, we continue inspiring young minds to grapple with the effects
of rapid population growth on our environment and human well-being.
You can view some of the inspiring winning entries, here: www.worldof8billion.org/winners-2023.
Thank
you, again, for your generous support of our work. We have been fortunate to count
on you as a partner in our long-term efforts to stabilize global population
through education and advocacy! Thank you for your trust and vision.
In gratitude,
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Shauna |
Shauna Scherer, MPA, CFRE |
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