{"id":2666,"date":"2018-05-12T01:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T01:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2018-05-12T01:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T01:28:42","slug":"this-mothers-day-help-us-save-a-girl-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/this-mothers-day-help-us-save-a-girl-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"This Mother\u2019s Day, Help Us \u201cSave a Girl\u201d in China!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This Mother\u2019s Day, honor your mother by helping us save girls in China \u2013 girls like little Bao-Jun!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look at this sweet and innocent face! This is \u201cBao-Jun\u201d (we have not used her real name, to protect her identity), one month old. With help from our \u201cSave a Girl\u201d Campaign, she will grow up to know just how bravely her mother fought for her.<\/p>\n

Bao-Jun is a second daughter.\u00a0 Too many second daughters are unwanted in China, because of son preference.\u00a0 Couples will let the first daughter live, but will abort or abandon their second daughter, often under pressure from the husband\u2019s parents.\u00a0 For this reason, there are about 37 million more men living in China than women \u2013 and this gender imbalance is driving human trafficking and sexual slavery, within China and from the surrounding countries.<\/p>\n

When Bao-Jun\u2019s mother gave birth to her older sister, Bao-Jun\u2019s paternal grandmother was extremely disappointed.\u00a0 The nicest thing she said to Bao-Jun\u2019s mother was, \u201cDon\u2019t worry.\u00a0 You are still young.\u00a0 If you can give birth to a daughter, you can give birth to a son.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, when Bao-Jun\u2019s mother became pregnant with Bao-Jun, the grandmother pressured Bao-Jun\u2019s mother to go with her to the hospital to learn the gender of her baby.\u00a0 Bao-Jun\u2019s mother knew that, if the baby was a girl, the grandmother would pressure her to abort this second daughter, so she refused to go with her to the hospital.<\/p>\n

When Bao-Jun was born a beautiful baby girl, her grandmother was extremely upset.\u00a0 She pressured Bao-Jun\u2019s mother to \u201cgive her away.\u201d\u00a0 Too often, to \u201cgive her away\u201d means to leave a baby girl in a field to die.<\/p>\n

Luckily, a Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers\u2019 (WRWF) undercover fieldworker discovered Bao-Jun\u2019s mother. Our fieldworker told her that we are helping mothers keep their daughters \u2013 especially second daughters — because girls are just as good as boys. <\/strong><\/em>This is a powerful message in the Chinese countryside, one that most people have never heard. Our fieldworker offered Bao-Jun\u2019s mother a monthly stipend for a year to empower her to keep her daughter. With the help of this stipend, Bao-Jun\u2019s mother is raising Bao-Jun.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our \u201cSave a Girl\u201d program may have saved Bao-Jun\u2019s life. Bao-Jun\u2019s mother told the grandmother that people from the other side of the world plan to help Bao-Jun, so her own family member should love her more.<\/p>\n

This Mother\u2019s Day, will you honor your mother by helping save baby girls in China?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What better way of expressing gratitude for the mother in your life than by rescuing a woman and a girl in China?<\/p>\n

Step 1: Donate $25 or more \u2013 the amount of money it takes to help support a girl saved in China for one month<\/p>\n

Step 2: Indicate in the notes section of your donation the mother 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 \u201cSave a Girl\u201d Campaign.<\/p>\n

Will you help us save women and girls in China? Become a \u201cGirlSaver!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Won\u2019t you help us save more girls like Bao-Jun? 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 \u201cSave a Girl\u201d Campaign.<\/p>\n

Learn more about how you can help to\u00a0save\u00a0girls\u00a0here:<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=give<\/a><\/p>\n

For $25 per month, or $300 per year, our GirlSavers have helped WRWF\u00a0save\u00a0at-risk babies in China, babies like Bao-Jun, who may not be alive if our undercover fieldworker had not met her mother and assured her that little\u00a0girls\u00a0are as special as boys. We put our money where our mouth is, offering practical assistance to empower these mothers to keep their daughters.<\/p>\n

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This Mother\u2019s Day, honor your mother by helping us save girls in China \u2013 girls like little Bao-Jun! Look at this sweet and innocent face! This is \u201cBao-Jun\u201d (we have not used her real name, to protect her identity), one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}