10/13/2026
Impact Rescue | Giving Tuesday 2026 is coming!
Laboring over the stove, Mai cut a single fried egg into four pieces. It was all she had to feed her four hungry children. She was drowning in distress. How long would she be able to sustain these little lives?
Hopeless and heartbroken, she exchanged the life of Grace, her newborn baby girl, for $200. Word soon reached our partnering safehouse, and in the dead of night, they picked up the phone to call Rebecca (Becky) McDonald, the founder and president of Women At Risk, International (WAR, Int’l). They wanted to know if there was sufficient funding to rescue the baby girl.
Becky was shocked. She urged them to save the baby without delay, blindly promising the money they needed and vowing to organize a garage sale if necessary. Whatever it took. Despite threats from Grace’s traffickers, our partners tracked Mai down and gave her the money to buy Grace back.
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This little child, and the desperate scramble by WAR, Int’l to rescue her, generated a legacy in the form of an emergency fund dedicated to rescuing others in their time of most urgent need.
This fund is now our 911 Rescue Fund, which is tied to our emergency hotline. We weekly receive calls from within the U.S. and from partners around the world with urgent and dire needs–to the tune of thirty calls per month on average.
The timeline of rescue may be ten minutes, it may be ten hours. This doesn’t leave us time to make donor calls and set up fundraisers. We need the funds in hand, ready to rescue. Your generosity ensures that we can always say yes, and turn someone’s danger–whether that of a little baby, a woman in hiding, a kidnapped child, a missing teen–into rescue.
This year, Giving Tuesday falls on December 1st, an exciting day for many reasons. For WAR, Int’l, it signals the biggest day of the year for raising money for our 911 Rescue Fund. We are aiming to raise $30,000, and we need our supporters on board!
Please partner with us in GivingTuesday2026–because each life matters, and each gift impacts rescue. Follow the link in our bio to join us.
