{"id":496,"date":"2011-08-29T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T16:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/discoveriesofawanderer\/?p=496"},"modified":"2011-08-29T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T16:54:20","slug":"what-one-thing-would-you-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2011\/08\/what-one-thing-would-you-give-up.html","title":{"rendered":"What One Thing Would YOU Give Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.worldvision.org\/conversations\/what-would-you-give-up\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.worldvision.org\/badges\/blog-badge-onething.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"195\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>What would you give up\u00a0so that others could\u00a0have life-giving water and food? Right now over <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.worldvision.org\/conversations\/what-would-you-give-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">12 million in the Horn of Africa<\/a> are in danger of dying simply because there isn&#8217;t enough food to go around. Around 30,000 children have already died because of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But you can make a difference. <strong>Donate just $10 by texting the word &#8220;FAMINE&#8221; to &#8220;20222&#8221;<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.worldvision.org\/conversations\/what-would-you-give-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">partner with World Vision<\/a> in fighting hunger in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>World Vision has been working in communities in east Africa for 30 years. Even now, World Vision teams in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are working with community leaders to fight this crisis. They are responding with food, water, blankets and other critical needs for families. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.worldvision.org\/conversations\/what-would-you-give-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Join the team and help those in need<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just $10 &#8211; the cost of one little thing in our own lives. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.worldvision.org\/conversations\/what-would-you-give-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">What one thing will you give up<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you give up\u00a0so that others could\u00a0have life-giving water and food? Right now over 12 million in the Horn of Africa are in danger of dying simply because there isn&#8217;t enough food to go around. Around 30,000 children have already died because of the crisis. But you can make a difference. 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