Hi Friend,

As you consider your year-end giving, I'd like to share a stark number:

218 million: The estimated number of women in low- and middle-income countries who want to avoid pregnancy but are not using modern forms of contraception.

This staggering figure illustrates why global population grows so rapidly—largely because of the vast unmet need for family planning education and services. That’s why your help is now more critical than ever—with your support, we'll keep fighting for reproductive health and rights everywhere.

Joining us in this fight, a group of generous donors has offered to match ALL gifts to Population Connection through the end of the year, dollar for dollar, up to $60,000.

Your gift of $35.00 today will be DOUBLED—providing a critical boost to our ongoing programs to defend reproductive health and rights around the world.

Your support today will raise awareness about the steep environmental and humanitarian costs of global population growth.

Just consider what your support accomplished in 2021:

• Nearly 200 activists attended our virtual Capitol Hill Days. Collectively, they contacted congressional offices 1,200 times to demand a permanent end to the Global Gag Rule and an increase in international family planning funding.

• More than 12,000 future educators took part in PopEd workshops, acquiring the tools they need to inform students about the dangers of global population growth.

• Over 700 of your fellow grassroots supporters tuned in to learn about population issues and share their knowledge through our virtual events. People like you are key to amplifying our message about population growth far and wide, and we’re committed to continuing to offer educational events for all of our members and supporters.

And thanks to our generous matching gift sponsors, your own generous gift of $35.00 will go twice as far, up to $60,000! Together, we can further expand these important programs—and more!—throughout 2022.

Thank you, as ever, for your partnership and support, and warmest wishes for the new year.

John Seager
President and CEO