290 Children Sponsored!!

We are coming up on the 1 year mark for the sponsorship program.  We will officially be one year old on May 1st, 2011.  To date, we have 290 children sponsored!  That is an amazing feat! 

So many more children are waiting for sponsors, and the benefits to the children are immense!  As the 2011 budget comes in and the gift distribution list is put together, you will find even more benefits than before.  While companies are down-sizing, we are up-sizing!  We want the children to have as many benefits as possible... and we would like as many children as possible to have the benefits. 

With a month and a half left until the 1 year mark, we can easily hit the 300 mark with sponsored children, but how about if we aim for 350?  or 400?  It is easy to speak numbers, but not so easy when you think about what we are speaking of are children...  Real children waiting for a real person to accept them and help them to break the cycle of poverty.  Every child deserves a better future. 

There is no difference between these children and children born into privilege, except that one thing that the children (or us) who have been blessed with more than our share are in the fortunate position to help those who do not have enough.  You may think you do not make enough money to help, but the reality is, if you are looking at this post on a computer screen, you are already more fortunate than 70% of the world's population who does not have access to the internet at all!!  Do you own a car?  If so, you are more fortunate than 91% of the world's population! 

If you really look at it, it is surprising how little it takes to make a difference!  30 cents a day- that is right- 30 cents a day is all it takes to provide one of our children with fees to attend school, a uniform, items to keep clean for medical and dental health, access to medicines to fight malaria and other deadly diseases, school supplies, etc.  For 30 cents a day, I can't even buy a candy bar, gum... I can't think of anything I can buy for 30 cents any more!!  But, for 30 cents, I can make sure that at least 1 child will not have to suffer through a bought of malaria without access to medication- at least one child will be able to go to school without facing the fear of being kicked out for not paying school fees...  Can you think of a better way to spend 30 cents?

When that 30 cents goes toward the sponsorship of a child, it can help everyone in the community.  The sponsorship means that the single mother does not need to worry about how she will come up with school fees for one of her children.  She can, then, put her money toward feeding all of her children, buying more seed to add to her garden, purchasing livestock to sell and use for food... All from my 30 cents!  It is the domino effect.  AND, further, when that child is able to continue his/her education past primary school and into university, bigger changes happen!  That child can return to his community as a doctor, a nurse, a teacher... Together as hundreds of sponsored children with higher education, they contribute to the evolution of the entire community from poverty to prosperity!  This is the future for our children in the southern province of Zambia- all thanks to you!!    

If you would like to help us help one more- spread the word!!  You never know who may be listening.  And many children are waiting for someone to decide that they can spare 30 cents...