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Global Toilet Crisis Kills More Than COVID-19

Dec. 18, 2020

More people will die from diseases linked to lack of toilets and poor sanitation than from COVID-19 this year.

So far this year, more than 1.6 million deaths worldwide have been attributed to the pandemic, but it’s likely millions more will die from exposure to diseases carried by human waste -- diseases that don’t make the headlines.

“
2.2 million people worldwide will die this year from diarrhea alone -- nearly double the number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far.
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- UNICEF

As millions across the developing world relieve themselves in the open, raw sewage spawns a multitude of deadly diseases. Excrement attrac…

'Forgotten Christmas' Showers Life-changing Gifts on World's Poor

Dec. 2, 2020

Francis Chan, Dr. K.P. Yohannan, Hank Hanegraaff Confront Church

Nov. 13, 2020

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GFA Helps 70,000 Families Defy Covid-19 Starvation

Oct. 30, 2020

With the number of Covid-19 cases in India surging past eight million and climbing rapidly, ongoing hunger relief efforts continue to stave off starvation acro…

650 Million Child Brides

Oct. 16, 2020

As women’s rights take centre stage in North America and many parts of the world, the reality for millions of girls worldwide is sexual exploitation and forced…

Millions of Widows in ‘Crisis of Survival’

Sept. 25, 2020

GFA World spotlights the huge “uphill battle” facing many of the world’s 258 million widows in a just-released report. Treatment of widows is often startlingly…

Prayer as a Lifestyle

Sept. 8, 2020

As followers of Christ, prayer is foundational to our spiritual journey and yet it can be so easy to push it aside amid the distractions and busyness of the wo…

Jesus Wells Spring Hope in Thirstiest Continent

Aug. 20, 2020

GFA World has revealed it has provided safe drinking water for a staggering 37.5 million people in Asia, the world’s “thirstiest” continent.

Jade Mine Disaster Moves GFA to Call for 'Compassionate Prayer'

Aug. 7, 2020

Local GFA World pastor comforts bereaved families after horrific mudslide kills more than 160 at Myanmar jade mining site