| A sponsorship as little as 25 cents a day can make a | | | | orphanages and orphan care-points where civil society |
| world of a difference to children in third world | | | | and governments are trying to salvage some of their |
| countries. Take the next few minutes and read | | | | innocence by providing much-needed food, education |
| about the plight of the African child. You don't have | | | | and care for them. |
| to donate but just read - after all, knowledge is | | | | Dire, as it is, this situation calls for immediate |
| power! It is important to know what is happening | | | | intervention, requiring everyone to use whatever |
| around you and in other parts of the world. | | | | available resources they have to save the future; the |
| Childhood is a unique gift that any individual has the | | | | children of our nations. The above-stated facts are |
| natural right to claim. But for many children this | | | | reason enough for one to contribute towards helping |
| natural right is more of a myth than a reality. Because | | | | these children. The children can be helped as a |
| of their poor economic situations, which are a result | | | | collective - through sponsoring an orphanage or |
| of factors including poverty, HIV/AIDS and climate | | | | care-point, or they can be helped as individuals by |
| change, many children in third world nations such as | | | | sponsoring one orphan in an orphanage or village with |
| Swaziland, Ghana, Indonesia, India and Senegal are | | | | a minimum donation of 25 cents per day. |
| not in school. | | | | Sponsorship helps provide necessities such as access |
| Furthermore, life-threatening diseases including | | | | to quality education, primary health care, nutrition, |
| diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and measles have put | | | | immunization, recreation and creativity inputs for the |
| many children in impoverished countries at risk. | | | | children. Sponsorship as little as 25 cents a day gives |
| Globally, pneumonia and diarrhea cause 36 percent of | | | | the child not only the necessary physical input needed |
| child deaths among children under age 5, while | | | | for survival, but also the emotional input which is |
| malnutrition contributes to 53 percent. | | | | extended as care by the people that help the children |
| The youth and children in third world countries who | | | | to access the physical things such as healthcare. |
| are not in school are instead busy looking after their | | | | Sponsorship can also be used to help underprivileged |
| siblings with whom they are orphaned together, | | | | children in formal education by paying for their fees, |
| working in factories where they are exploited as child | | | | helping them to access a better education and better |
| labourers, working on the streets enticing | | | | recreation facilities as well as provide improved health |
| unscrupulous men and women to plunder their | | | | facilities for their use in the schools. These are other |
| innocence through prostitution so they can at least | | | | reasons why everyone should sponsor a child. |
| have a meal, or in luckier cases, they are in | | | | |