Fwd: Funding for drowning prevention programs

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From: "Rebecca Wear Robinson" <rebeccalioness@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2015 8:01 PM
Subject: Funding for drowning prevention programs
To: <mark.rauterkus@gmail.com>
Cc:

If we work together we can attract major funding for drowning prevention programs globally. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. $45 billion has been donated to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.  I have created a petition requesting that drowning prevention be one of their targeted causes.  Please click here to sign the petition, and remember to share the link on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  The petition reads as follows:   Dear Ms. Chan and Mr. Zuckerberg, Congratulations on the birth of your daughter and thank you for celebrating her birth with your generous gift to the world.  We in the global drowning prevention field would like to respectfully request that drowning be one of the targeted causes of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.   Drowning has recently been identified by both the World Health Organization and UNICEF as a hidden global epidemic and leading killer of children.  Just as Facebook cuts across geographic, socio-economic, and cultural lines globally, so does drowning.  Unfortunately, children and those with the fewest resources are most at risk. With your help, drowning could be virtually eradicated.  Just as guinea worm has been almost eradicated through education and change in behavior, so too can drowning be drastically reduced through cost-effective education and change in behavior.   With your help, all the world's children could learn the skills to successfully navigate the water that covers 70% of the Earth's surface. With your help, one of the leading causes of death and injury for children could be transformed into skills that also improve health, physical coordination, and school performance. With your help, we could end a global epidemic in one generation.  As water safety skills become internalized and sustainable, they will be passed down from one generation to the next, permanently reducing injuries and death by drowning. Please, we need your help. Sincerely, The Global Drowning Prevention Community Click here to go directly to the petition, and remember to share the link on social media.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2015 Lioness Protects LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because we work together on ending drowning. Our mailing address is: Lioness Protects LLC 312 Park Avenue #84 Clarendon Hills, IL 60514-0084 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences